The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propylaeum \Prop`y*l[ae]"um\, n.; pl. Propyl[ae]a. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? before + ? a gate.] (Anc. Classical Arch.) Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.
Wiktionary
n. A vestibule or entrance to a Greek temple
Usage examples of "propylaeum".
They stood in a Propylaea that was scarcely more than tumbled stones and snags of sculpture.
I exchange dispatches with its governor, Fidus Aquila, about the propylaea of its temple and the statues of its triumphal arch.
Tourists ambled through the Propylaea, snapping holographic images of one of the few ancient structures to survive the chaotic Mad Times that had dominated The Twen.
They climbed between the never-completed columns of the Propylaea, with Johnny lifting Beth over rough stone.
They ascended by way of the Propylaea, an enormous sloping ramp, and went to make an offering at the Temple of Athene.
The Propylaeum, another magnificent gateway, thrown across the handsome Brienner Strasse, beyond the Glyptothek, is an imitation of that on the Acropolis at Athens.
These, with the Propylaeum, before mentioned, come out wonderfully against a blue sky.