From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishIonicI‧on‧ic /aɪˈɒnɪk $ aɪˈɑː-/ adjective AAmade in the simply decorated style of ancient Greek buildings → Doric an Ionic column
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Ionic• Most Roman temples are in the Corinthian order, a few Ionic but rarely Doric.• From the atria one passes into the first peristyle which has an Ionic colonnade and a central fountain.• This one has Ionic columns and a balustrade, and the speaker's gallery seems to have been right.• Ahead, a handful of broken Ionic columns rose against the pale blue sky.• The porch is a semicircle of giant Ionic columns running the full height of the house.• The Doric capitals were large and simple, the Ionic ones of the Aeolic type.• The large Ionic Temple of Artemis at Sardis seems to have been built in three phases.Origin Ionic (1600-1700) French Ionique, from Latin, from Greek Ionikos 