Menhir vs Headstone - What's the difference?
menhir | headstone |
A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times.
* 1963 , Thomas Pynchon, V. :
* 1980 , Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers :
Menhir is a see also of headstone.
As nouns the difference between menhir and headstone
is that menhir is a single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times while headstone is a gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.menhir
English
(wikipedia menhir)Noun
(en noun)- no time has passed since we lived in caves, grappled with fish at the reedy shore, buried our dead with a song, with red-ochre and pulled up our dolmens, temples and menhirs and standing stones to the glory of some indeterminate god or gods [...].
- On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms. Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high.
