Definitions for pylon

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pylon py·lon

Spelling: [pahy-lon]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ lɒn/

Pylon is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in pylon (lnopy).

Definitions for pylon

noun

1. a marking post or tower for guiding aviators, frequently used in races.
2. a relatively tall structure at the side of a gate, bridge, or avenue, marking an entrance or approach.
3. a monumental tower forming the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple, consisting either of a pair of tall quadrilateral masonry masses with sloping sides and a doorway between them or of one such mass pierced with a doorway.
4. a steel tower or mast carrying high-tension lines, telephone wires, or other cables and lines.
5. Aeronautics. a finlike device used to attach engines, auxiliary fuel tanks, bombs, etc., to an aircraft wing or fuselage.

Origin of pylon

First recorded in 1840-50, pylon is from the Greek word pylṓn gateway, gate tower

Examples for pylon

Through the pylon window-place crept the first grey light of dawn.

Then the Priest went to the pylon and stood in the shadow of the gate.

From the pylon a superb view may be gained of the ruins of Karnak.

Knowest thou that she waited for thee there by the pylon gate?

Six days had gone by, and Queen Neter-Tua starved in the pylon tower.

pylon, or Pro-pylon, the portal or front of an Egyptian temple.

Remember when we starved in the pylon tower at Memphis, and what befell us there.

At the top of the worn stone stairway, cut in the pylon, I met Biddy.

This pylon is 376 feet wide at the widest part and 50 feet thick.

I hurried through them, and reached the entrance to the pylon that is at the outer gate.