tholos
(in classical architecture)
a circular building.
a small, round structure, as a lantern.
a circular subterranean tomb, lined with masonry.
a subterranean domed tomb chamber of the Mycenaean age.
Origin of tholos
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How to use tholos in a sentence
Below this stratum was an older shaft grave, as is usual in tholos interments; it had been plundered?
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangThere is no evidence for the statement sometimes made that there was a well or spring below the tholos.
The tholos of Polykletos at Epidauros was a circular building 107 feet in diameter, situated within the sacred enclosure.
When Pausanias speaks of the tholos at Epidaurus a second time, he does not call it by that name, but .
Problems in Periclean Buildings | G. W. ElderkinThe tholos of Atreus was itself subterranean; the exterior of the conical mass of masonry was covered with a hill of earth.
History of Ancient Art | Franz von Reber
British Dictionary definitions for tholos
/ (ˈθəʊlɒs) /
a dry-stone beehive-shaped tomb associated with the Mycenaean culture of Greece in the 16th to the 12th century bc
Origin of tholos
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