The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypostyle \Hy"po*style\, a. [Gr. ? resting on pillars; ? under + ? a pillar.] (Arch.) Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.
Wiktionary
a. (context architecture English) Having a roof supported on a row of columns. n. (context architecture English) A building or chamber whose roof is supported on a row of columns.
Wikipedia
In architecture, a hypostyle hall has a roof which is supported by columns.
Usage examples of "hypostyle".
Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Insinger of an outer wall of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.
I saw Alice going up the steps that led into the Hypostyle Hall and John and Mary, hand in hand, following her.
We finally managed to pry him away from that part of the temple and talked him into showing us boring tourist stuff like the Hypostyle Hall.
As he drew nearer to the center of the mighty hypostyle hall, the sobbing voices became clearer.
Without breaking stride the bearers trotted through them into a court filled with columns like the Hypostyle Hall of Karnak.
Several of the monolithic columns of the Hypostyle Hall had collapsed, with a crash that shook the entire town of Luxor.
Hovering among the motes of dust dancing in those beams, and infiltrating the heavy stillness of the air amid the great columns that held up the roof of the Hypostyle Hall, it was easy to imagine that the spirit-form of Osiris could still be present.
It led off from the eastern edge of the inner Hypostyle Hall about 200 feet from the entrance to the temple.
Ramses well remembered the year several of the mammoth columns of the Hypostyle Hall had collapsed, with a crash that could be heard all over Luxor.
Frenchman in the Hypostyle Hall directing a crew who were moving a stone drum from one of the fallen columns.
She swung down one stairway and up another, down a cool, hypostyle hall, past rows of incised reliefs, past startlingly real paintings.
They were walking slowly across the forecourt now, between the stunted remains of its stout columns towards the facade of the hypostyle hall.
They left the others immediately and flitted across this smaller open court between the vast columns with their brightly painted capitals and on towards the hypostyle hall.
Rae suggested, wondering what value Vee had affixed to the hypostyle figures holding up the antique mantel, and whether the woman had any idea how ancient the pieces were.
Duny at last fell silent as they passed into the great hypostyle hall, awed as they all were, every day, by the size of the stone pillars shaped like cedars that stretched up a dozen times the girls height or more before disappearing into the inky shadows beneath the ceiling.