Definitions for stylobate

stylobate sty·lo·bate

Spelling: [stahy-luh-beyt]
IPA: /ˈstaɪ ləˌbeɪt/

Stylobate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 484 anagrams from letters in stylobate (abelostty).

Definitions for stylobate

noun

  1. a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, especially the outermost colonnade.

Origin of stylobate

1555-65; Latin stȳlobatēs, stȳlobata Greek stȳlobátēs, equivalent to stȳlo- stylo-2 + -batēs (ba- (base of baínein to step) + -tēs agent suffix)

Examples for stylobate

This is also true of the stylobate, or substructure of a colonnade, and of pediments and other features.

The letters are Greek capitals, written on the stylobate of the southern temple.

The entire foundation of the temple, including the stereobate, the stylobate, and the remaining steps.

But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below.

At a distance of about 10 m. from the stylobate, the windows appeared in the middle of the intercolumniations.

A flight of steps, enclosed between two walls of the same height as the stylobate, led up to the portico.

The stylobate had therefore to be similarly curved so that the columns should be all of the same height.

Its stylobate raised it well above 398the plain, while the steps in front gave meaning and accent to its elevation.

stylobate: The flat, continuous surface upon which the columns stand, as in a colonnade.

Upon this pavement rested the foundations of the stylobate surrounding the pyramid.

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