Definitions for Telamon

Telamon tel·a·mon

Spelling: [tel-uh-muh n, -mon]
IPA: /ˈtɛl ə mən, -ˌmɒn/

Telamon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 282 anagrams from letters in Telamon (aelmnot).

Definitions for Telamon

noun

  1. atlas (def 5).
  2. an Argonaut and friend of Hercules, and the father of Ajax and Teucer.

Origin of Telamon

1700-10; Latin telamōn Greek telamṓn bearer, support; identified with Telamon

Examples for Telamon

Great Ajax son of telamon heeded the message, and at once spoke to the son of Oileus.

Aias, the son of telamon, is clearly a 'doublet' of the Locrian Aias; and so forth.

telamon rushed forward, but stumbled over a projecting root and fell to the ground.

Hercules' Prayer concerning Ajax, son of telamon, translation, 390.

The father "telamon" and the connection with Aegina are neither of them original in the myth.

He was not so great, nor nearly so great, as Ajax the son of telamon.

The Gauls rose and marched south; they were defeated, and 40,000 of them killed at telamon.

Only the soul of Ajax, son of telamon, stood sullenly aloof; for between him and Odysseus there was an old quarrel.

Will you, then, invite telamon to this kind of life to ease his grief?

He arrived at a port of Tuscany called telamon, and as soon as he was landed proclaimed liberty to the slaves.

Word Value for Telamon
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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