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• telamon
  telamon

  noun

  atlas.
• Telamon
  Telamon

  noun

  an Argonaut and friend of Hercules, and the father of Ajax and Teucer.

telamon

¹ American  

[tel-uh-muhn, -mon] / ˈtɛl ə mən, -ˌmɒn /

noun

Architecture.

• telamones
  plural

1. atlas.

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Telamon ² American  

[tel-uh-muhn, -mon] / ˈtɛl ə mən, -ˌmɒn /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. an Argonaut and friend of Hercules, and the father of Ajax and Teucer.

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Telamon ¹ British  

/ ˈtɛləmən, -ˌmɒn /

noun

1. Greek myth a king of Salamis; brother of Peleus and father of Teucer and Ajax

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telamon ² British  

/ ˈtɛləmən /

noun

1. Also called: atlas.  a column in the form of a male figure, used to support an entablature Compare caryatid

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• telamones
  plural

Etymology

Origin of telamon

1700–10; < Latin telamōn < Greek telamṓn bearer, support; identified with Telamon

Example Sentences

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telamon Telamon telamones

But the Algonquins and Iroquois wore such breastplates as they could manufacture, though they also used shields of great size, suspended, in Mycenaean fashion, from the neck and shoulder by a telamon or belt.

From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang

At daybreak his son Telamon woke him saying that a great host of men was approaching the palace.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

He was the son of Telamon and was called Ajax the Greater.

From Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece by Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin

The subjects of many of his dramas, such as the Achilles, the Ajax, the Hectoris Lutra, the Telamon, the Iphigenia, afforded scope for the exhibition of the soldierly character.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar

Less fortunate was Pappenheim, the Telamon of the army, the bravest soldier of Austria and the Church.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Henry Cabot Lodge

This was a rock similar in size to those which three thousand years before had been moved by Ajax, son of Telamon, and Diomed.

From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père

Only one of its Atlases, or telamones, remains even semi-intact.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2020

Reassembled fragments from eight of the telamones are to be arranged on shelves within a steel-ribbed contemporary sculpture in the shape of the damned Titan.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2020

There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio