megalithic

[ meg-uh-lith-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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