Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a roof or ceiling supported by rows of columns.
- n. A building with a roof or ceiling supported by rows of columns.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In architecture, having the roof supported by pillars: as, the hypostyle hall at Karnak.
- n. In architecture, a structure, with or without inclosing walls, the ceiling of which is supported by columns; a covered colonnade; a pillared hall: applied specifically to the many columned halls of a type characteristic of ancient Egyptian religious architecture. The cut shows part of the interior of one of the greatest of these halls. An exterior view of a later and smaller example is given under Egyptian.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Arch.) Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ὑπόστυλος (hypóstylos). (Wiktionary)
- From Greek hupostūlos, resting upon pillars : hupo-, hypo- + stūlos, pillar; see stā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She stopped on the processional way a short distance from the huge pylons that marked the entrance to the hypostyle hall.”
“The building is like that of Kuba, only smaller: and the hypostyle is hung with oil lamps and ostrich eggs, the usual paltry furniture of an Arab mausoleum.”
“It is a small strongly built square of hewn stone, with a dome covering the solitary hypostyle to the South, and the usual minaret.”
“They had chiselled away every portrait of the false pharaoh and expunged his name from the walls and tall hypostyle columns.”
“Now she kept a demure and chaste demeanour as Apepi led her down the long hypostyle gallery of the temple to the sanctuary.”
“The sloping roof was supported by tall hypostyle columns, miniature copies of those at the temple of Karnak.”
“When I looked round suddenly he was almost upon me, gliding between the pillars of the hypostyle hall towards me, slim and tall and deadly as an erect cobra.”
“A colonnaded court, hypostyle hall and antechamber led to two doors, beyond which were two precincts and two naos, or inner sanctums.”
“Nor was it the Temple of Karnak, whose hypostyle hall boasted one hundred and thirty-four massive columns, any one of which might have held one hundred standing men on a capital mushroomed sixty-nine feet above the ground.”
“The Temple, of which only the hypostyle hall remained, presented some interesting columns with stylized foliage and complicated geometric designs, but for Jenny it was rather anticlimactic aftej the more extreme grandeur of Luxor, Karnak and Thebes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hypostyle’.
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nouns
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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habanera, habile, habiliment, hackle, hackney, hadal, hame, hank, hansom, hapax, hark, harl and 568 more...
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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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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Words of Standing
steed, stool, estancia, stage, stance, staunch, stanch, stanchion, stanza, stative, stator, stay and 180 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Style
A family of terms containing the string *styl that suggest a sense of something columnar or pointed.
Words containing styl- denoting a mode of expression or fashion are excluded from t...peristylar, orthostyle, stylus, styloglossal, stylate, stylomandibular, stylion, styliferous, styloglossus, stylomaxillary, stylopharyngeus, styletiform and 32 more...
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parky, pinnacle, marrowfat, sombrous, photophone, misandrist, misogynist, hypostyle, cordial, tulipomania, cornucopia, qualms and 36 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "Everyone's at it, playing and parleying, circles within circles, sacred arcaded courtyard revived, hypostyle hall left to the more resourceful among them to revitalize prayer and ritual, the ten-arched loggia open to the street, where over here shkubba players keep an eye on cheaters, over there aces take all, somewhere the sound of dice and dominos, elsewhere a game of chess between two refined elderly gentlemen, pederasts surrounded by handsome boys making faces and gesticulating, sticking out tongues at any eye that lingers too long."
Talismano by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated by Jane Kuntz, p 78 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback
Sep 22, 2011