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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  

/ -ˌmɒn, ˈtɛləmən /

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 Lang, Andrew

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

The Romans followed and as the army from Sardinia landed to the north of the foe and cut off their retreat, the latter were surrounded and brought to bay at Telamon.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Hesioné freed by Hercules, and married to Telamon.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

From the Telamo, spoken by Telamon on receiving tidings of his son's death.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

In the branches of a tree Nestor found safety, and Telamon rushed on to destroy the filthy thing that would have made carrion of the sons of the gods.

From A Book of Myths by Stratton, Helen

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

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

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