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menhir | x |

As a noun menhir

is menhir.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

menhir

English

(wikipedia menhir)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times.
  • * 1963 , Thomas Pynchon, V. :
    • 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 [...].
  • * 1980 , Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers :
    • On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms. Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high.

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----