[meg-er-uh] 
| 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. |
[mjuh-gar-ee-uh
n, me‑] , Me⋅gar⋅ic, adjective [meg-uh-ron] [-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. |
| Meg·a·ra (měg'ər-ə) 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. |
| meg·a·ron (měg'ə-rŏn') 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.] |