Definitions for tholos

tholos tho·los

Spelling: [thoh-los, -lohs]
IPA: /ˈθoʊ lɒs, -loʊs/

Tholos is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in tholos (hloost).

Definitions for tholos

noun

  1. a circular building. a small, round structure, as a lantern. a circular subterranean tomb, lined with masonry.
  2. a subterranean domed tomb chamber of the Mycenaean age.

Origin of tholos

First recorded in 1895-1900, tholos is from the Greek word thólos literally, rotunda

Examples for tholos

Below this stratum was an older shaft grave, as is usual in tholos interments; it had been plundered?

The tholos of Atreus was itself subterranean; the exterior of the conical mass of masonry was covered with a hill of earth.

There is no evidence for the statement sometimes made that there was a well or spring below the tholos.

The tholos of Polykletos at Epidauros was a circular building 107 feet in diameter, situated within the sacred enclosure.

When Pausanias speaks of the tholos at Epidaurus a second time, he does not call it by that name, but .

It is the same shaft, diminishing from summit to base, which has been noticed upon the portal front of the tholos of Atreus.

An entrance-passage, the dromos, led from the valley to the tholos in a gently inclined ascent.

This building is a dome-covered tomb (tholos) of beehive shape, approached by a long passage (dromos).

Word Value for tholos
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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