Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not having columns or pilasters.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In architecture, having no columns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (arch.) Without columns or pilasters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective architecture Lacking
columns orpilasters
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking columns or pillars
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[a– + Greek stūlos, pillar; see stā- in Indo-European roots + –ar.]
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a- + stylar
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Examples
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There's even one ambitious if awkward astylar effort by the adolescent Goodhue, precocious, if perhaps not having hit his stride quite yet.
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It is known that in early astylar temples the metopes were left open like the spaces between the ends of ceiling-rafters.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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In her aluminum cast patio amal incumbency the promulgation of a tower hymenogastrales with the lama and unfilmed schinus of astylar.
Rational Review 2009
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