Definition of "megalithic" [megalithic]

• Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made (adjective)

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• "There is here nothing to suggest the Doric of Paestum and Selinus, much to recall the megalithic buildings of Syria, and the sculpture of the farther East."
• "If, as seems probable, the idea of megalithic building was brought to Europe by the immigration of a new race it is possible that a branch of this race entered Sicily."
• "These latter do not seem to have brought the idea of megalithic building with them, as their earlier tombs are simple mounds."