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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

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Etymology

Origin of telamon

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

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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

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

And in memory of that omen Telamon named his son “Aias”; that is, “Eagle.”

From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

Ajax Telamon and Ulysses contend for the arms of Achilles.

From The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley

And this is what that Telamon declares, “I, when my son was born,” etc.; and thus Theseus, “I on my future misery did dwell;” and Anaxagoras, “I knew my son was mortal.”

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge

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

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