Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.

A term describing a monument surrounded by a single row of columns.

is the term applied to a temple or other structure where the columns of the front portico are returned along its sides as wings at the distance of one or two intercolumniations from the walls of the naos or cella. Almost all the Greek temples were peripteral, whether Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian.

Surrounded on all sides by a single row of columns. The typical large Louisiana plantation house was surrounded by such columns.

a term applied to a cella surrounded by a single row of columns

a temple will columns all the way around.

a type of Greek temple which has a colonnade running along all four sides [image