Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com

supercolumniation

American  
[soo-per-kuh-luhm-nee-ey-shuhn] / ˌsu pər kəˌlʌm niˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

Architecture.

  1. the placing of one order of columns above another.

Etymology

Origin of supercolumniation

First recorded in 1830–40; super- + columniation

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.