prostyle
adjectiveHaving a row of columns across the front only, as in some Greek and Roman temples.
In architecture, noting a portico in which the columns stand out entirely in front of the walls of the building to which it is attached; also, noting a temple or other structure having columns in front only, but across the whole front, as distinguished from a portico in antis, or a structure characterized by such a portico. See amphiprostyle, anta, and portico.
adjectiveHaving columns in front.
adjectiveHaving
A building having
marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure
