(n.) A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paris councillors back plan for first new skyscraper in 40 years Read more But if you listen to the man behind this megalith describing its virtues, you would be forgiven for thinking it will barely be noticeable at all.
(2) Why disaster movies are leading the way for age-appropriate relationships Read more San Andreas , which stars Dwayne Johnson and Carla Gugino in a story about a massive earthquake on the titular Californian fault line, received mixed reviews from critics, but was helped by Johnson’s star power in the wake of box-office megalith Fast and Furious 7.
(3) The conicidence of surviving both of Crô-Magnon-typical men and of the archaic Altaic language on the Canary Islands as a reservation of megalithic civilization up to the Middle Ages (XVIth century) approves the hypothesis mentioned above.
(4) One, that it's a place of extreme contrasts, from the historic East End to the shimmering banker megaliths of Canary Wharf, and two, that its politics are vicious.
(5) It's likely this is why they were chosen over other, closer megalithic materials.
(6) Owned by brew pub craft-beer megalith McMenamins, Edgefield is a sprawling plantation with restaurants, a hotel, a distillery and a golf course.
(7) But ultimately, most analysts believe whatever Greece decides in a month's time, the crisis is unlikely to be cauterised until politicians make what Mellor calls a "monumental, megalithic decision": to allow the ECB to freely lend cash-strapped banks as much as they need to stay afloat; and to allow eurozone governments to stand behind each other, come what may.
(8) Prof Kate Welham, of Bournemouth University, said the ruins of a dismantled monument were likely to lie between the two megalith quarries.
(9) You’ll need permission from the farmer to walk on his land but this should be irresistible for anyone game on to solve a megalithic mystery.
(10) Starting in North End and pushing flush against the well-known New Brighton and Kwazakhele townships, you encounter old rusted shells, dilapidated mill houses, and the megalithic Goodyear, Eveready and PPC (cement) factories.
(11) The megaliths would not have been used for ceremonies at ground level, but would instead have supported a circular wooden platform on which ceremonies were performed to the rotating heavens, the theory suggests.
(12) Strange would exist in the same universe as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Hulk, all of whom came together for last year's $1.5bn box office megalith The Avengers .
(13) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Rising to 25 storeys, the towers will be the same height as the nearby Sule Shangri-La hotel, a brutish megalith erected in the 1990s, whose construction provided the regime with a convenient excuse to level a group of coffee houses that were a popular hangout for the city’s activists and intellectuals.
(14) The studio also has a sequel to the 2012 box office megalith The Avengers and a debut Ant-Man set to hit cinemas next year.
(15) How do you go from a microbudget monster movie with special effects created using off-the-shelf software to a $160m (£96m) Hollywood megalith starring the hottest cult actor in the world in three years?
(16) Swords and sorcery tale Black Angel was commissioned by Star Wars creator George Lucas to be screened with his 1980 box office megalith in European cinemas.
(17) In roughly the same amount of time, MasterChef has transformed from a BBC2 runt into an Apprentice-sized megalith.
(18) Australian actor Chris Hemsworth rounds out the top five with $37m, thanks to his roles as a Norse demigod in last year's Thor: The Dark World and the 2012 $1.5bn box-office megalith The Avengers .
(19) So how does that tally with Marvel's announcement that the Whedon-directed sequel to last year's $1.5bn box office megalith will feature the villain Ultron , a character well-known from the comic books?
Menhir
Definition:
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The days when Asterix could be mined for sly political in-jokes, and a thinly disguised Jacques Chirac flitted between Obelix's menhirs, are past.