menhir

1. 1.

   a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France

   Synonymsstanding stone

   Broadermegalith

Other forms of menhir

plural

menhirs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about menhir

What does menhir mean?

menhir means "a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France".

How many syllables are in menhir?

menhir has 2 syllables: men-hir. The stress falls on "men".

What is another word for menhir?

Close synonyms include standing stone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is menhir a common word?

menhir is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.