megaron
/meg-uh-ron/US // ˈmɛg əˌrɒn //UK // (ˈmɛɡəˌrɒn) //
大龙,大龙哥,大龙网,梦龙
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural meg·a·ra [meg-er-uh], /ˈmɛg ər ə/, meg·a·rons.
- : 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.
Examples
They sleep mucho domou; that is, not in a separate recess in the house, but in a recess of the great hall or megaron.
There can be little doubt that this circle indicates the position of the hearth in the centre of the megaron.
In the oldest time it was not only symbolically but actually the centre of the house, and especially of the megaron.
But if doma here be not equivalent to megaron, what room can it possibly be?
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