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UK
/mˌɛɡəlˈɪθɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to megaliths or the people who erected megaliths
megalithic monuments like Stonehenge
How To Use megalithic In A Sentence
- His body lies beneath the vast funerary monument shaped by Jacob Epstein, but not even its megalithic weight can keep the spirit of Oscar Wilde earthbound.
- One contributor left his job as an aircraft design engineer to travel Europe in a camper van, researching little-known megalithic sites to add to the fast-growing sections on France and Germany.
- They were the so called Megalithic People, the builders of dolmens, cromlechs and other monuments over or to their dead.
- I am possessed, as much as the next man, of that stiff upper lip, steely resolve and adamantine backbone which make us British positively megalithic in the face of danger.
- I was looking for some info on the Maori style of tattooing, moko, and happened across this interesting article, Megalithic New Zealand.
- They were the so called Megalithic People, the builders of dolmens, cromlechs and other monuments over or to their dead.
- For instance, Raising the Megalithic Roof, from the May 2000 History Today, describes a similar twin-fulcra system used by Oxfordshire engineer Cliff Osenton to build replica dolmens. Shifting stones
- Megalithic standing stones and a 5000 year-old passage grave, a twelfth century church ruin, a fourteenth century O'Driscoll castle, cannonaded in the early 1600s, suggest times past.
- megalithic monuments like Stonehenge
- Megalithic temples that predate the Egyptian pyramids, Bronze Age archaeological sites, Phoenician inscriptions, and Roman catacombs all contribute to a sense of nationhood.