megalith

noun

mega·​lith ˈme-gə-ˌlith How to pronounce megalith (audio)
: a very large usually rough stone used in prehistoric cultures as a monument or building block
megalithic adjective

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Perhaps their vessels could even have floated a 13,000-pound megalith. Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025 Small countries can’t be expected to invest in the same capacity as megaliths like China and the United States. Leon Gordon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 Many of these visitors flock to the site on solstices and equinoxes: On those four dates each year, the barrier surrounding the megalith is lowered and visitors can move freely among the stones. Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025 The legendary theater mom at the center of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and Stephen Sondheim’s 1959 musical megalith always looms large, but in the current Broadway iteration, Gypsy is entirely and inarguably Rose’s show, in ways both compelling and frustrating. Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for megalith

Word History

First Known Use

1853, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of megalith was in 1853

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“Megalith.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megalith. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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