in ancient writers, denotes a street or public place where people met and conversed together. In some writers *androna* is more expressly used for the space between two houses; in which sense the Greeks also use the term *ανδρωναῖος* for the way or passage between two apartments.

ANDRONA is also used, in ecclesiastical writers, for that part in churches destined for the men. Anciently it was the custom for the men and women to have separate apartments in places of worship, where they performed their devotions asunder; which method is still religiously observed in the Greek church. The *ανδρωναῖος*, or *androna*, was in the southern side of the church, and the women's apartment on the northern.