acropolitan

UK/ˌækɹəˈpɒlɪtən/

acropolitan adjective: of or befitting an acropolis, especially in lofty glory and in the capacity to inspire awe; compare Acropolitan.

Adjective (1)

acropolitan (not comparable)

Of or befitting an acropolis, especially in lofty glory and in the capacity to inspire awe; compare Acropolitan.
- And then, this enduring ocean of houses, of palaces, temples, porticoes, colonnades, which floated before her eyes from the Western Necropolis to the Gardens of the Goddess: Bruchion, the Hellenic town, dazzling and regular; Rhacotis, the Egyptian town, before which the light-flooded Paneion rose...1913, Pierre Louÿs, Mitchell Starrett Buck, Aphrodite, page 130
- At Hastings and other towns, where archæological ruins monopolise the central height, you see an unwitting abandonment of the acropolitan ideal.1924: Victor Branford, Living Religions, a Plea for the Larger Modernism, page 162 (Leplay House Press)

Acropolitan (not comparable)

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of the Athenian Acropolis; compare acropolitan.
- Who first surrounded the Acropolitan platform with a wall, is unknown, but it is probable that the work of Pelasgi may be traced in part of the boundary wall, from a division of it having received that name by tradition.1854, Robert Stuart, Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical, volume 1, New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., page 60, column 1
- The walls of Tiryns and Mycenæ, are the finest remains of Acropolitan building in Greece, but they are inferior in magnitude to erections, (called Cyclopean), of Norba, in Latium; and several other Pelasgic fortresses of Cora, Signia, and Alatrium, in Italy, (the walls of which resemble those of...1854, Robert Stuart, Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical, volume 1, New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., pages 63-64

acropolis + -an

Alternative letter-case form of acropolitan.

What does acropolitan mean?: Acropolitan means of or befitting an acropolis, especially in lofty glory and in the capacity to inspire awe; compare Acropolitan.
What part of speech is acropolitan?: Acropolitan is an adjective.
How do you pronounce acropolitan?: Acropolitan is pronounced /ˌækɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ (UK).

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