Definitions for dolmens

dolmens dol·men

Spelling: [dohl-men, -muh n, dol-]
IPA: /ˈdoʊl mɛn, -mən, ˈdɒl-/

Dolmens is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in dolmens (delmnos).

Definitions for dolmens

noun

  1. a structure usually regarded as a tomb, consisting of two or more large, upright stones set with a space between and capped by a horizontal stone.

Origin of dolmens

1855-60; French Cornish, lenited form of tolmen hole of stone (taken by French archeologists to mean cromlech)

Examples for dolmens

The dolmen, or table of rock, is formed of a long stone laid flat over other stones set in the ground.

Contemporary with this later form of dolmen were several other types of tomb.

We do at least know that the dolmen was raised above a burial, in the one instance of Zennor above two.

For this he needs an outlet issuing near the Fairies' dolmen.

The moon-worshipper did no worse when he led the chosen victim to the dolmen.

The church is laid out like a dolmen, and the towers are the menhirs.

From words that escaped him while he was sleeping under the Fairies' dolmen.

And on each of these mountains we found groups of dolmen still standing.

Within the dolmen, which was so revered that the neighbours swore their chief oath by it, were kept certain sacred scriptures.

There is a rude circle of menhirs at the site, with a trilithon or dolmen on one side.

Word Value for dolmens
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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