Menhirs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MENHIRS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• MENHIR, (Welsh) a single upright rude monolith of usually prehistoric origin
• a tall upright stone of a kind erected in prehistoric times in western Europe.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a prehistoric monument

Words related to MENHIRS

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How to use MENHIRS in a sentence

• To say streets is scarcely an exaggeration, for these jutting rocks have in places almost the regularity of the menhirs of Carnac.
• These menhirs are erected all in one line which nearly always consists of an uneven number of stones.
• We will now pass on to the numerous stone cromlechs which are to be found, frequently in proximity to the menhirs and table-stones.
• Let us now compare the Khasi menhirs with some to be found in other parts of the world.
• The most westerly, that of Menec, consists of eleven lines of menhirs and a cromlech, the total number of stones standing being 1169, the tallest of which is 13 feet in height.
• With the exception of a few menhirs, whose purpose is uncertain, all are sepulchral.
• There is, however, a circle of stones west of Tiberias, and an enclosure of menhirs between Tyre and Sidon.
• It is, however, probable that these trilithons were not, like the dolmens, tombs, but served some religious purpose, possibly connected with the worship of the menhirs.
• They set up a group of an odd number of menhirs, 3, 5, 7, 9, or 11, and in front of these two structures of dolmen form.
• If the benefits continue it is usual to increase the number of menhirs.
• It seems clear from the excavations that the menhirs do not mark the place of burials, though they may in some cases have been raised in honour of the dead.

Similar words containing MENHIR without suffix s

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