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[meg-er-uh] 
Meg⋅a⋅ra
[meg-er-uh] –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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[meg-uh-ron]
meg⋅a⋅ron
[meg-uh-ron] –noun, plural -a⋅ra
[-er-uh] , -a⋅rons. (in pre-Hellenic Greek architecture)
[-er-uh] , -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
1875–80; < Gk mégaron (in Homer) the principal living quarters of a palace
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| Meg·a·ra
(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
(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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