Definitions for Megara

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Megara Meg·a·ra

Spelling: [meg-er-uh]

IPA: /ˈmɛg ər ə/

Megara is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in Megara (aaegmr).

Definitions for Megara

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.
3. 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 of Megara

First recorded in 1875-80, megaron is from the Greek word mégaron (in Homer) the principal living quarters of a palace

Examples for Megara

His sailing master, a man of Megara, had advised him to decline a battle.

Alcathoe, the citadel of Megara, and hence a name for Megara.

Many of the houses in the Megara were full of the accumulated wealth of centuries.

In his same term of office he got Megara into his hands, and caused it to join also.

Megara made strong resistance to Calenus, and was treated with severity.

Sore amazed were the men of Megara to find that their foes were driving them backwards.

But, if you please, let us first sit down; for I am tired with my yesterday's journey from Megara.

Over them, however, is a road which leads to Megara and Attica from the Isthmus.

Nisæa was united to Megara, as the Piræus to Athens, by two long walls.

Megara was lost—and now all the holds on the Peloponnesus were surrendered.