abaton
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
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Definition of abaton
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
“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.”
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noun
-
An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
“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.”
- Any one of the sacred cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried.
- An inaccessible or restricted part of a sacred building.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton), nominalized neuter form of ἄβατος (ábatos, “inaccessible”).
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