myron

[ mee-rawn; English mahy-ron ]

/ ˈmi rɔn; English ˈmaɪ rɒn /

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noun Greek Church.

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Origin of myron

From the Greek word mýron unguent, perfume

Words nearby myron

myrmecophile, myrmecophily, Myrmidon, Myrna, myrobalan, myron, myrrh, Myrrha, myrtaceous, myrtle, Myrtle Beach

Other definitions for myron (2 of 2)

Myron

[ mahy-ruhn ]

/ ˈmaɪ rən /

noun

flourished c450 b.c., Greek sculptor.

a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “pleasant.”

How to use myron in a sentence

A quick Internet search offers at least a surface understanding of who Myron May was.
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Myron Scholes and Robert Merton won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1997, by which time Black had died.
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Once again, I had, in a manner of speaking, mistaken Myron for Myra.
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Myron Leon Wallace was born in Brookline, Mass., in 1918, a year after John F. Kennedy was born five doors away.
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It seemed best to Myron to humor this inexplicable mood, until he could persuade her back into a normal one.
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She spoke as something within Myron remembered the school-teacher speaking, when she called him to the board.
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Myron Dill could have wept from the surprise of it all, the assault upon his wondering nerves.
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Myron felt himself yielding again, and clutched at confidence as the spent swimmer reaches for a plank.
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His son Myron enjoyed this felicity all the days of his life.
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British Dictionary definitions for myron

Myron

/ (ˈmaɪərən) /

noun

5th century bc, Greek sculptor. He worked mainly in bronze and introduced a greater variety of pose into Greek sculpture, as in his Discobolus

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