English Dictionary

propylaeum

noun

(historical contexts, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) A vestibule or entrance, (especially) to a temple.

The propylaeum was an impressive entrance to the ancient temple.

意味（1）

(historical contexts, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) A vestibule or entrance, (especially) to a temple.

On either side of the road young girls stood with pitchers at the fountains which bubbled there, and behind the houses forming the propylaea of the rock rose the massive forehead of the Isle — crested at this part with its enormous ramparts as with a mural crown.