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Definition of Cyclopean
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops. "Cyclopean eye"
Definition of Cyclopean
1. a. Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.
Definition of Cyclopean
1. Adjective. Suggestive of a Cyclops. ¹
2. Adjective. (architecture) Of a style of ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; ancient and roughly composed. ¹
3. Adjective. Suggestive of a cyclops. ¹
4. Adjective. (context: masonry) Fitted together of huge irregular stones. ¹
5. Adjective. Massive in stature. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cyclopean
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Cyclopean
1. Denoting or relating to cyclopia. Synonym: cyclopean. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclopean
Literary usage of Cyclopean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"Their constructions are known as the cyclopean walls, and many of them still
exist in parts of Greece and Italy. The statement of Strabo more than a ..."
2. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1873)
"Of the cyclopean work there now remain parts of the south wall, and the west
gable, the latter containing the primitive doorway. This doorway, on account of ..."
3. Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann, William Ewart Gladstone (1880)
"THE SECOND GREAT TREASURY ; ACROPOLIS; AND cyclopean REMAINS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
OF MYCENAE. Further excavations of Mrs. Schliemann's Treasury — The dromos ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1899)
"cyclopean WALLS AND BASALTIC COLUMNS IN THE CAROLINES. ... Above this is a striking
example of immensely solid cyclopean masonry— .1 great wall, ..."
5. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"The reader is asked to throw one more glance at the subject-matter treated of in
the chapter which follows:— cyclopean RUINS AND COLOSSAL STONES AS ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1829)
"We continued our walk considerably further, and found at Vetriano other considerable
fragments of cyclopean walls, but always built to support the earth ..."
7. The American Antiquarian by Stephen Denison Peet (1880)
"A cyclopean WALL IN A MOUND. To the Editor of tilt American Antiquarian: In
working up my correspondence to-day, I find among my files a postal card from ..."
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