Abaton
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Abaton is a noun meaning (Ancient Greece) An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
Meaning
(Ancient Greece) An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
More Meanings
- (Egyptology) Any one of the sacred cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried.
- (Greek Orthodoxy) An inaccessible or restricted part of a sacred building.
Example Sentences
There were a series of bathing houses for hydropathy. The abatons, lofty and airy sleeping chambers with their southern sides and open colonnade, are singularly like the open balconies of our tuberculosis sanatoria.
Word Forms
- abatons
Related Words
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