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megalithic

Syllables: meg·a·lith·icUK/ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/

megalithic adjective: of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.

Adjective

megalithic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.

megalithic meaning in Bengali

megalithic in Bengali

মেগালিথ, বিশালাকার পাথর সংক্রান্ত

Origin of megalithic

PIE word *méǵh₂s From mega- (prefix meaning ‘very large, great’) + -lith (suffix meaning ‘stone’) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after monolithic; according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word is first attested earlier than megalith. It is analysable as megalith + -ic.

Words formed from megalithic

Words that rhyme with megalithic

Questions about megalithic

What does megalithic mean?
Megalithic means of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.
What is megalithic in Bengali?
Megalithic in Bengali is মেগালিথ, বিশালাকার পাথর সংক্রান্ত. See Megalithic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is megalithic?
Megalithic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce megalithic?
Megalithic is pronounced /ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/ (UK).

Words near megalithic in the dictionary

  1. megalineation
  2. megalineations
  3. megaliter
  4. megaliters
  5. megalith
  6. megalithic
  7. megalithically
  8. megalithism
  9. megaliths
  10. megalitre
  11. megalitres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: megalithic (page history and authors); megalithic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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