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Meaning of "apadana" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF APADANA

ˌæpəˈdɑːnə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APADANA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Apadana is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES APADANA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Apadana

An apadana is a large hypostyle hall, the best known examples being the great audience hall and portico at Persepolis and the palace of Susa. The Persepolis Apadana belongs to the oldest building phase of the city of Persepolis, the first half of the 5th century BC, as part of the original design by Darius the Great. Its construction completed by Xerxes I. Modern scholarships "demonstrates the metaphorical nature of the Apadana reliefs as idealised social orders".

Definition of apadana in the English dictionary

The definition of apadana in the dictionary is the great hall in an ancient Persian palace.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APADANA

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APADANA

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WORDS THAT END LIKE APADANA

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Synonyms and antonyms of apadana in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «apadana» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APADANA

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The translations of apadana from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «apadana» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

Apadana酒店
1,325 millions of speakers
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apadana
570 millions of speakers
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apadana
510 millions of speakers
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अपादना
380 millions of speakers
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apadana
280 millions of speakers
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Apadana
278 millions of speakers
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apadana
270 millions of speakers
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apadana
260 millions of speakers
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apadana
220 millions of speakers
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Apadana
190 millions of speakers
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apadana
180 millions of speakers
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アパダナ
130 millions of speakers
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apadana
85 millions of speakers
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Apadana
85 millions of speakers
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Apadana
80 millions of speakers
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apadana
75 millions of speakers
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अपदाना
75 millions of speakers
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apadana
70 millions of speakers
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apadana
65 millions of speakers
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Apadana
50 millions of speakers
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Apadana
40 millions of speakers
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Apadana
30 millions of speakers
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apadana
15 millions of speakers
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Apadana
14 millions of speakers
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Apadana
10 millions of speakers
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apadana
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APADANA»

Discover the use of apadana in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to apadana and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dictionary of Pali Proper Names
Most of the stories are found in the Paramatthadlpanl, the Commentary to the Thera- and Theri-gatha, extracted from the Apadana with the introductory words, " tena vuttam Apadane." But in numerous instances the names under which the ...
G.P. Malalasekera, 2003
2
Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and ...
The connection of these early saints' verses to the Apadana is most intimate: many of the apadanas take up and incorporate the same monk's or nun's verses in Thera-Therigatha, continuing the process, evident even in the latter texts, ...
Juliane Schober, 2002
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The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in ...
800 by 500 feet (246 X 155 m) and occupying about three times the area of the apadana, the palace consists of an entry gate and passageway at the east that lead to a large court (cour est). To the west of this court are three others aligned ...
Prudence Oliver Harper, Joan Aruz, Françoise Tallon, 1992
4
Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in ...
of Darius monumentalised the main point of access from the 'Ville Royale' at the southeast of the Apadana tell. To date the only substantial structures in the 'Ville Royale' revealed by investigation, even with the aid of resistivity surveys, are ...
Margaret C. Miller, 2004
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Persepolis: Discovery and Afterlife of a World Wonder
Ada Small Moore standing before the staircase of the Apadana at Persepolis. From Mostafavi's album of Persepolis dated November 1933 (Photo © the Iran Bastan Mu- seum). The so-called Harem of Xerxes before reconstruction in the ...
Ali Mousavi, 2012
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The Noun Phrase in Bengali: Assignment of Role and the ...
Chatterjee, I put apadana karaka in the fourth place, but Kale, N. Vidyabhushan, P. Acharya, have put it in the fifth. It is explained that the source of a thing, cause of an action, a place from which a thing or person has departed, or has fallen, ...
Malaya Gangopadhyay, 1990
7
Apadana
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
8
Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia
The water conduits were connected to the sewerage network through the walls and the openings in the stone cover. c) Characteristics of the sewerage network in the Apadana palace: The largest and the most magnificent structure in ...
Andreas Nikolaos Angelakis, Larry W. Mays, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, 2012
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A History of Indian Literature: Buddhist and Jaina ...
he includes does not occur in the Apadana collection in its present form.396 The collection, however, includes many theras who do not appear in the Theragatha, and does not include all the therls who are in the Therigatha. On the other hand,  ...
Kenneth Roy Norman, Jan Gonda, 1983
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Dimensions of Social Life: Essays in Honor of David G. ...
Though these structures were rectangular, one had marked features showing development toward the apadana: two square corner rooms, two rows of columns running between them, two enclosing rows of columns paralleling the other three  ...
Paul Hockings, 1987
REFERENCE
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