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Found primarily in N France and England
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menhir
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A menhir (French, from Middle Breton : maen , "stone" and hir , "long"), standing stone , orthostat , lith or masseba/matseva is a large upright standing stone. Menhirs may be found solely as monoliths , or as part of a group of similar stones. Their size ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"upright monumental stone," 1834, literally "long stone," from French menhir (19c.), from Breton men "stone" + hir "long," from PIE *se-ro- , from root *se- "long, late" (see soiree ). Cognate with Welsh maen hir , Cornish medn hir .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Menhir \Men"hir\, n. [F. Armor. men stone + hir high.] A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France [syn: standing stone ]
Usage examples of menhir.
Ils savent aussi que les menhirs de Carnac sont des geants paiens changes en pierre par saint Cornely.
And as at dusk and dawn the great menhirs of Stonehenge fill with a mysterious, granitic life, seem to be praying priests of stone, so about these gathered hierophantic illusion.
A narrow but high portal marked the entrance, framed by four massive cut-stonesa broad threshold underfoot, two tapering, flanking menhirs, and a single lintel stone overhead.
Kamist Reloe, you would discover that these boulders are in fact menhirs, stones standing taller than any of us here.
Years ago in that section of the beach had once stood a long wooden pier that time and tide had reduced to a broken row of ruined pilings, barnacled, algae-furred, jutting haphazardly above the swell like ancient menhirs in a rolling field.
The structures seemed isolated: menhirs erected on a plain once green, now the peculiar lichenous shade of scrubby desert, very much like the earliest television colour pictures of the Moon.
It was a trick of the spectral light, a mirage of the twining mists which wreathed those great menhirs, a visual and mental distortion conjured of distance and dreams.
The men floundered ankle-deep in pits of sable sand, or climbed laboriously over damlike barricades of rusty boulders, huge as piled menhirs.
While he instructed his machines with the program for the meeting small, shivering men hewed blue stone into menhirs to form Stonehenge.
Among thousands of millions of obelisks and monoliths, menhirs and dolmens, their shades varying between granite-gray, moss-green, and lichened pink, one more configuration becomes unremarkable.