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propylaeums

propylaeums is the plural 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

Questions about propylaeums

What is propylaeums the plural of?
Propylaeums is the plural of propylaeum.

Words near propylaeums in the dictionary

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

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