pronaos.

The porch or entrance space before the main chamber of a classical temple.

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Words that belong together

• temple pronaos
• columned pronaos

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They waited in the shadow of the pronaos.

Two columns guarded the temple’s pronaos.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular pronaos; plural pronaoi. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.