Definitions for pronaos

pronaos pro·na·os

Spelling: [proh-ney-os]
IPA: /proʊˈneɪ ɒs/

Pronaos is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in pronaos (anooprs).

Definitions for pronaos

noun

  1. (in a classical temple) an open vestibule before the cella.

Origin of pronaos

From the Greek word prónāos, dating back to 1605-15. See pro-2, naos

Examples for pronaos

Behind the pronaos could be recognized the place where the cella used to be.

They led their visitors through the pronaos and naos to the secos, to the holy of holies.

It is when we arrive at the pronaos that we fail to recognize the disposition to which we have grown accustomed.

We can easily understand how Strabo saw in it the equivalent to the pronaos of the Greek temples.

The temple was decastyle, dipteral, with pronaos and vestibule, but no opisthodomos.

The real difficulty begins when we look round us for the pronaos, and examine the hypostyle halls.

On each side of the pronaos project what are called the wings.

The gloom deepens in the hypostyle which follows the pronaos.

Terminations similar to pilasters upon the ends of the lateral walls of the cella, in pronaos and epinaos.

It is in the Doric style, of white marble, and eleven columns of the peristyle and one of the pronaos are now standing.

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