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stylobates

stylobates is the plural of stylobate.

Meaning of stylobate

Noun

stylobate (plural stylobates)

  1. (Classical, Greek) The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.
    • The bases of the columns and the plinths below them appear to be standing on pedestals, but this is only an illusion, for the stylobate [translating Sockel] has been cut through in five places, and through each gap five steps lead up between the columns.1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 121

Questions about stylobates

What is stylobates the plural of?
Stylobates is the plural of stylobate.

Words near stylobates in the dictionary

  1. stylo
  2. stylo milo
  3. stylo-
  4. stylobata
  5. stylobate
  6. stylobates
  7. stylocavernula
  8. stylocellid
  9. stylocellids
  10. stylocone
  11. stylocones

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