megalith

noun

mega·​lith ˈme-gə-ˌlith 

: a very large usually rough stone used in prehistoric cultures as a monument or building block

megalithic

ˌme-gə-ˈli-thik 

adjective

Illustration of megalith

Examples of megalith in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With the help of modern surveying equipment, excavators and a group of volunteers, archaeologists moved the massive granite megaliths stone by stone. —Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2025

If the name of the game in a gold rush is selling shovels, there are few shovel makers in either e-sports or VR gaming capable of competing with the online retail megalith. —IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2016

The burial chamber was surrounded by 16 megaliths spaced about 6.5 feet apart. —Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2025

Snakes abound in the megaliths unearthed at the archaeological site of Gobekli Tepe in present-day Turkey, where Neolithic peoples attached special significance to serpents roughly 10,000 years ago. —Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1853, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for megalith

• coppersmith
• hammersmith
• monolith
• silversmith
• beckwith
• blacksmith
• forthwith
• herewith
• locksmith
• outwith
• therewith
• wherewith