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tholos
[ thoh-los, -lohs ]
noun
, plural tho·loi [thoh, -loi].
- (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.
tholos
/ ˈθəʊlɒs /
noun
- a dry-stone beehive-shaped tomb associated with the Mycenaean culture of Greece in the 16th to the 12th century bc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tholos1
First recorded in 1895–1900, tholos is from the Greek word thólos literally, rotunda
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tholos1
C17: from Greek
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Example Sentences
Below this stratum was an older shaft grave, as is usual in tholos interments; it had been plundered?
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There is no evidence for the statement sometimes made that there was a well or spring below the Tholos.
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The Tholos of Polykletos at Epidauros was a circular building 107 feet in diameter, situated within the sacred enclosure.
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When Pausanias speaks of the tholos at Epidaurus a second time, he does not call it by that name, but .
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The Tholos of Atreus was itself subterranean; the exterior of the conical mass of masonry was covered with a hill of earth.
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