megalithic

[ meg-uh-lith-ik ]

adjective

1. relating to ancient construction works using stones of great size, such as dolmens or menhirs, or to the era in which these were constructed:

   Hundreds of megalithic structures throughout Europe are oriented to the solstices and the equinoxes.

Other Words From

• pre·meg·a·lith·ic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of megalithic¹

First recorded in 1830–40; mega- ( def ) + -lithic

Example Sentences

It appears in the later megalithic tombs and the underground stone vaults or cists.

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This movement is augmented somewhat, perhaps very little, by recruits from the megalithic zone of northwestern Europe and Denmark.

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Megalithic monuments have been made quite recently by primitive Indian peoples.

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It was no real refuge to them, but its megalithic precincts gave some lying illusion of safety.

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Regarding the nomenclature of the several species of megalithic monuments met with in Brittany some 38 definitions are necessary.

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