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Plinth vs Menhir - What's the difference?

plinth | menhir |

As nouns the difference between plinth and menhir

is that plinth is a block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based while menhir is menhir.

plinth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall.
  • A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet.

    • 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.