portal tomb

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   a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone

   Synonymsdolmencromlech

   Broadermegalith

Questions about portal tomb

What does portal tomb mean?

portal tomb means "a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone".

What is another word for portal tomb?

Close synonyms include dolmen, cromlech. 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 portal tomb a common word?

portal tomb 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.