• (n. pl.) Caryatids.
Car`y·at'i·des noun plural [ Latin , from Greek ... priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Caryæ (Gr. ...), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids.] (Arch) Caryatids. » Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes , Telamones ...