Definitions for hypostyle

hypostyle hy·po·style

Spelling: [hahy-puh-stahyl, hip-uh-]
IPA: /ˈhaɪ pəˌstaɪl, ˈhɪp ə-/

Hypostyle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in hypostyle (ehlopstyy).

Definitions for hypostyle

adjective

  1. having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling:

noun

  1. a hypostyle structure.

Origin of hypostyle

1825-35; Greek hypóstȳlos resting on pillars, equivalent to hypo- hypo- + -stȳlos -style2

Examples for hypostyle

hypostyle, literally “under columns,” but used to mean filled by columns.

The hypostyle of the temple of the God Amen—that could be no other thing but one.

Slowly, perhaps, the body moves from courtyard to hypostyle hall, and from one hall to another.

It is to this room that the name of hypostyle hall has been given.

They crossed the colonnade at the side of the hypostyle and went down two steps into the vast nave of the temple.

In the Ramesseum there are three flights of steps between the first and second hypostyle hall.

The gloom deepens in the hypostyle which follows the pronaos.

India has topes and pagodas, Egypt sphinxes and hypostyle chambers, Greece three orders of columns.

It is not so large, however, and it contains no hypostyle hall.

To the west of the hypostyle hall there is a region strewn with discs, all equal and all alike.

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