Cromlech Definition

krŏmlĕk
noun

Dolmen.

Webster's New World
A portal tomb.
American Heritage
A Neolithic monument of megaliths, arranged in a circle and surrounding a mound or dolmen.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Cromlech

Noun

Singular:
cromlech
Plural:
cromlechs

Origin of Cromlech

  • Welsh, from crom (feminine of crwm (“bowed, arched”)) + llech (“(flat) stone”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Welsh crom feminine of crwm arched llech stone

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cromlech Sentence Examples

  • Several remains of antiquity exist in the neighbourhood, among them a cromlech called Kit's Coty House, about a mile north-east from the village.

  • In the neighbourhood there is the interesting cromlech of the four Maels, which, if actually erected over the criminals whose name it bears, is proved by the early annals of Ireland to belong to the 7th century A.D.

  • In the neighbourhood are a cromlech and two ruined towers, and crannogs, or ancient stockaded islands, have been discovered in the lough.

  • The " bewitched horse " was the fallen cromlech on which he was seated.

  • Redding describes his first encounter with " the largest cromlech now in existence in this Country.

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