telamon

¹ American

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

noun

Architecture.

atlas.

Telamon ² American

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

noun

Classical Mythology.

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

Telamon ¹ British

/ -ˌmɒn, ˈtɛləmən /

noun

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

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telamon ² British

/ ˈtɛləmən /

noun

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

Inflected Forms

noun

telamones

plural

Etymology

Origin of telamon

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

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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

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