megaron

American  

[meg-uh-ron] / ˈmɛg əˌrɒn /

noun

megara, plural megarons plural

1. 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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megaron British  

/ ˈmɛɡəˌrɒn /

noun

1. a tripartite rectangular room containing a central hearth surrounded by four pillars, found in Bronze Age Greece and Asia Minor

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• megara
  plural
• megarons
  plural

Etymology

Origin of megaron

First recorded in 1875–80, megaron is from the Greek word mégaron (in Homer) the principal living quarters of a palace

Example Sentences

As soon as you are safe inside, cross over and go straight through into the megaron to find my mother.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Taking his seat on the smooth bench again, Eumaios ate and drank his fill, then rose to climb the mountain trail back to his swine, leaving the megaron and court behind him crowded with banqueters.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Eumaios crossed the court and went straight forward into the megaron among the suitors; but death and darkness in that instant closed the eyes of Argos, who had seen his master, Odysseus, after twenty years.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

That night the mind of Zeus beyond the stormcloud stirred him with Telemakhos at hand to shift his arms from megaron to storage room and lock it.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Then he woke and picked his bedding up to stow away on a chair in the megaron.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer