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Definition of Megalithic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to megaliths or the people who erected megaliths. "Megalithic monuments like Stonehenge"
Definition of Megalithic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Megalithic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megalithic
Literary usage of Megalithic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology by University of Liverpool Institute of Archaeology (1908)
"ARE WE JUSTIFIED IN SPEAKING OF A megalithic RACE ? ... The custom of building
megalithic monuments may have arisen independently in * This article ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"THE Committee appointed to report upon the best means of registration and
classification of the megalithic remains of Great Britain have devoted their ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... corroborated by megalithic structures, lake dwellings, shell-heaps, burial
places, &c., prove original low culture throughout the world—Stages of ..."
4. The Recent Origin of Man: As Illustrated by Geology and the Modern Science by James Cocke Southall (1875)
"Extracts therefrom, and his Opinion that the megalithic Monuments belong to the
First Ten Centuries of the Christian Era.—Not noticed by the Classical ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"See CL Hull, Principles of Behavior (Appleton, New megalithic Rings The megalithic
structures of the British Isles and of western Europe continue to attract ..."
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