Definitions for menhir

menhir men·hir

Spelling: [men-hir]
IPA: /ˈmɛn hɪr/

Menhir is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in menhir (ehimnr).

Definitions for menhir

noun

  1. an upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others, as in an alignment, found chiefly in Cornwall and Brittany.

Origin of menhir

1830-40; Breton phrase men hir, equivalent to men stone + hir long

Examples for menhir

Two steps took me to the menhir, and I drew my seax that I might do as he asked me.

She feared the menhir no longer: its power over her was gone.

On Peter Tavy Moor is a fine circle of upright stones, and a menhir.

Thus it is believed in many localities that a "menhir" in the neighbourhood turns on its axis at midnight.

They it was who, ages ago, raised the huge stones of the menhir and dolmen, and hid beneath them untold hoards of treasure.

The largest known is the menhir of Locmariaquer in Morbihan, now fallen and broken.

In the centre of this stands a granite pillar (menhir) six or seven feet high.

And I saw that in a flash, even as he reeled back from the menhir and staggered.

The menhir is known as the Old Man, probably from houl mæn, a sun stone.

Near this is the Whitmoor Stone, a menhir, spared as it constitutes a parish boundary.

Word Value for menhir
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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