megaron
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.
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How to use megaron in a sentence
They sleep mucho domou; that is, not in a separate recess in the house, but in a recess of the great hall or megaron.
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangThere can be little doubt that this circle indicates the position of the hearth in the centre of the megaron.
Storyology | Benjamin TaylorIn the oldest time it was not only symbolically but actually the centre of the house, and especially of the megaron.
Storyology | Benjamin TaylorBut if doma here be not equivalent to megaron, what room can it possibly be?
Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for megaron
/ (ˈmɛɡəˌrɒn) /
a tripartite rectangular room containing a central hearth surrounded by four pillars, found in Bronze Age Greece and Asia Minor
Origin of megaron
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