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megalith

[ meg-uh-lith ]

noun

  1. a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.


megalith

/ ˈmɛɡəlɪθ /

noun

  1. a stone of great size, esp one forming part of a prehistoric monument See also alignment circle
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Derived Forms

  • ˌmegaˈlithic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • meg·a·lith·ic [meg-, uh, -, lith, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of megalith1

First recorded in 1850–55; mega- + -lith
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Example Sentences

"This differs from what we usually see in megalith graves, i.e. stone burial chambers from the Neolithic period," Karl-Göran Sjögren explains.

Mr. Campardo developed Tutti Frutti Megalith, a series of benches that he is fabricating himself.

Angel Castaño, a philologist who lives near the artificial lake and serves as the president of a local cultural association, likens the megalith to a gigantic eye gazing into prehistoric Spain.

We watch Crayton Sohan, the museum’s manager of rigging — of whom the narrator says “nothing big moves in the museum without his nod” — as he oversees the repositioning from vertical to horizontal, of a three-ton ninth-century megalith lent by a Senegalese museum.

“WandaVision,” a pleasantly weird ornament on the narrative megalith of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is TV’s latest diversion from the pandemic and perhaps its best metaphor.

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