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amphiprostyles

amphiprostyles is the plural of amphiprostyle.

Meaning of amphiprostyle

Noun

amphiprostyle (plural amphiprostyles)

  1. (historical) An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.
    • Peripteres were properly temples which had columns on all the four ſides; by which they were distinguished from proſtyles, and amphiproſtyles, the one of which had no columns before, and the other none on the sides.1819, Periptere, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26, unnumbered page

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Questions about amphiprostyles

What is amphiprostyles the plural of?
Amphiprostyles is the plural of amphiprostyle.

Words near amphiprostyles in the dictionary

  1. amphipols
  2. amphiporid
  3. amphiporids
  4. amphiprostylar
  5. amphiprostyle
  6. amphiprostyles
  7. amphiprotic
  8. amphiproticity
  9. amphipsocid
  10. amphipsocids
  11. amphiptere

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