IONIAN ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ionian order mean? 

• IONIAN ORDER (noun)
  The noun IONIAN ORDER has 1 sense:

1. the second Greek order; the capital is decorated with spiral scrolls

  Familiarity information: IONIAN ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IONIAN ORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second Greek order; the capital is decorated with spiral scrolls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

Ionian order; Ionic order

Hypernyms ("Ionian order" is a kind of...):

order ((architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans)