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S vs Peristyle - What's the difference?

s | peristyle |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun peristyle is

peristyle.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    peristyle

    English

    (wikipedia peristyle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 143:
    • One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Æsculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings.
  • A courtyard; the space surrounded by a colonnade.
  • A porch surrounded by columns.