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propylaeon

propylaeon is the alternative form of propylaeum.

Meaning of propylaeum

Noun

propylaeum (plural propylaea or propylaeums)

  1. (historical, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) A vestibule or entrance, (especially) to a temple.
    • On either side of the road young girls stood with pitchers at the fountains which bubbled there, and behind the houses forming the propylaea of the rock rose the massive forehead of the Isle — crested at this part with its enormous ramparts as with a mural crown.1892, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved

Forms of propylaeon

pluralpropylaeons
pluralpropylaea

Origin of propylaeon

From Ancient Greek.

Questions about propylaeon

What is propylaeon the alternative form of?
Propylaeon is the alternative form of propylaeum.

Words near propylaeon in the dictionary

  1. propyla
  2. propylacrylamide
  3. propyladenine
  4. propyladenines
  5. propylaea
  6. propylaeon
  7. propylaeum
  8. propylaeums
  9. propylamine
  10. propylamines
  11. propylammonium

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