Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Architecture The use or arrangement of columns in a building.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In architecture, the employment of columns in a design; collectively, the columns thus used in a structure.
Wiktionary
- n. architecture An arrangement or grouping of columns
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure
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Lists
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Interesting words
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Logolepsy
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Columniation
A list of terms pertaining to columns employed in architecture.
hypostyle, peristyle, columniation, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, base, shaft, capital, entablature, architrave, frieze and 78 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
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reesetee Better than calumniation, I'd wager. :-) Jun 1, 2011
hernesheir I don't much like this word, but that doesn't stop me from listing it. Hecko, I'm even going to use it for a list name! May 19, 2011