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propylon

propylon is the alternative spelling 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 propylon

pluralpropylons
pluralpropyla

Origin of propylon

Borrowed from Latin propylon, from Ancient Greek πρόπῠλον (própŭlon).

Questions about propylon

What is propylon the alternative spelling of?
Propylon is the alternative spelling of propylaeum.

Words near propylon in the dictionary

  1. propylitisation
  2. propylitization
  3. propylitizations
  4. propylketobemidone
  5. propylmagnesium
  6. propylon
  7. propylons
  8. propylparaben
  9. propylpyrazoletriol
  10. propyls
  11. propylthiouracil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: propylon (page history and authors); propylaeum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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