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Megara
is always a great word to know.
So is Charybdis. Does it mean:
| a Titan, brother of Prometheus, condemned to support the sky on his shoulders: identified by the ancients with the Atlas Mountains |
| a daughter of Gaea and Poseidon, a monster mentioned in Homer and later identified with the whirlpool Charybdis |
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noun, plural meg·a·ra 
[-er-uh] , meg·a·rons. (in pre-Hellenic Greek architecture)
[-er-uh] , meg·a·rons. (in pre-Hellenic Greek architecture) a building or semi-independent unit of a building, generally used as a living apartment and typically having a square or broadly rectangular principal chamber with a porch, often of columns in antis, and sometimes an antichamber or other small compartments.
Origin:
1875–80; < Greek mégaron (in Homer) the principal living quarters of a palace
1875–80; < Greek mégaron (in Homer) the principal living quarters of a palace
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