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megaron
[ meg-uh-ron ]
noun
, plural meg·a·ra [meg, -er-, uh], meg·a·rons.
- a building or semi-independent unit of a building, generally used as a living apartment and typically having a square or broadly rectangular principal chamber with a porch, often of columns in antis, and sometimes an antichamber or other small compartments.
megaron
/ ˈmɛɡəˌrɒn /
noun
- a tripartite rectangular room containing a central hearth surrounded by four pillars, found in Bronze Age Greece and Asia Minor
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Word History and Origins
Origin of megaron1
First recorded in 1875–80, megaron is from the Greek word mégaron (in Homer) the principal living quarters of a palace
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Word History and Origins
Origin of megaron1
from Greek, literally: hall, from megas large
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Example Sentences
They sleep mucho domou; that is, not in a separate recess in the house, but in a recess of the great hall or megaron.
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There can be little doubt that this circle indicates the position of the hearth in the centre of the megaron.
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In the oldest time it was not only symbolically but actually the centre of the house, and especially of the megaron.
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But if doma here be not equivalent to megaron, what room can it possibly be?
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