a tripartite rectangular room containing a central hearth surrounded by four pillars, found in Bronze Age Greece and Asia Minor
Word origin
from Greek, literally: hall, from megas large
megaron in American English
(ˈmeɡəˌrɑn)
nounWord forms: plural-ara (-ərə) or -arons(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
Word origin
[1875–80; ‹ Gk mégaron (in Homer) the principal living quarters of a palace]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cross-fertilization, knockabout, slime mold, weekend, weekender