Avebury

[ eyv-buh-ree ]

noun

1. Baron. Lubbock, Sir John.
2. Also A·bur·y []. a village in Wiltshire, England: site of one of the largest ceremonial megalithic structures in Europe.

Avebury

/ ˈeɪvbərɪ /

noun

1. a village in Wiltshire, site of an extensive Neolithic stone circle

Example Sentences

Both travellers discovered a common excitement at the mention of Avebury and Silbury Hill.

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It was Dr. Martineau who presently brought this disquisition upon Avebury to a stop by a very remarkable gesture.

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In the last part of this sentence the great doctor either forgets, or shows his ignorance of, the antiquities at Avebury.

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Avebury Church, just without the rampart, was originally a Saxon building, its aisles being Norman additions.

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The literature of Avebury, not quite so copious as that of the stones of the Plain, is also more diffident in its guessing.

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