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Meg·a·ra    Audio Help   [meg-er-uh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
2.Classical Mythology. a daughter of Creon whose children were slain by her husband, Hercules, in a fit of madness.
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Me·gar·i·an, Me·gar·e·an    Audio Help   [mjuh-gar-ee-uhn, me‑] Pronunciation Key, Me·gar·ic, adjective
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meg·a·ron    Audio Help   [meg-uh-ron] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -a·ra    Audio Help   [-er-uh] Pronunciation Key, -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; < Gk mégaron (in Homer) the principal living quarters of a palace]
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Meg·a·ra    Audio Help   (měg'ər-ə)  Pronunciation Key 
An ancient city of east-central Greece. It was the capital of Megaris, a small Dorian state between the Saronic Gulf and the Gulf of Corinth. Megara flourished as a maritime center from the eighth to the fifth century B.C.

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meg·a·ron    Audio Help   (měg'ə-rŏn')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. meg·a·ra (-ər-ə)
The main hall or central room of a palace or house, especially of Mycenaean Greece, having a pillared porch and a more or less central hearth.


[Greek.]

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