Palladian

¹ American  

[puh-lay-dee-uhn] / pəˈleɪ di ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the goddess Athena.

2. pertaining to wisdom, knowledge, or study.

---

Palladian ² American  

[puh-lay-dee-uhn, -lah-] / pəˈleɪ di ən, -ˈlɑ- /

adjective

1. pertaining to, introduced by, or in the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.

---

noun

1. a disciple of Andrea Palladio, specifically one of the circle of Lord Burlington in 18th-century England.

Palladian ¹ British  

/ pəˈleɪdɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the goddess Pallas Athena

2. literary wise or learned

---

Palladian ² British  

/ pəˈleɪdɪən /

adjective

1. denoting, relating to, or having the neoclassical style of architecture created by Palladio

---

Other Word Forms

• Palladianism
  noun

---

Etymology

Origin of Palladian¹

1555–65; < Latin Palladi(us) “of Pallas” (< Greek Palládios; see Palladium) + -an

Origin of Palladian²

First recorded in 1725–35; Palladi(o) + -an

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Palladian

The dark green in the decorative friezes, as well as the lintels and pilasters of the Palladian window, is newly accurate, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

Under Sir Frances, the medieval hunting lodge was replaced by an impressive new country house, the first in England built in the Italian Palladian style.

From BBC ● May 18, 2024

Hemings’s literacy — in Palladian architecture, in fine woodworking, and in reading and writing — meant his work at Poplar Forest could be documented on paper for his enslaver.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023

The Galleria’s Palladian proportions come from classical formalism, from the temples erected by the ancient Greeks and from Vitruvius, whose “De Architectura” is the only extant instructional architecture text from antiquity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

By the addition of a wing to the left of the present doorway, a beautiful Palladian window, and new entrance porch set in a gabled bay, Fowle changed the front façade into the latest mode.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---