Avebury
Baron. Lubbock, Sir John.
Also A·bur·y [ey-buh-ree] /ˈeɪ bə ri/ . a village in Wiltshire, England: site of one of the largest ceremonial megalithic structures in Europe.
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How to use Avebury in a sentence
Both travellers discovered a common excitement at the mention of Avebury and Silbury Hill.
The Secret Places of the Heart | H. G. WellsIt was Dr. Martineau who presently brought this disquisition upon Avebury to a stop by a very remarkable gesture.
The Secret Places of the Heart | H. G. WellsIn the last part of this sentence the great doctor either forgets, or shows his ignorance of, the antiquities at Avebury.
Wanderings in Wessex | Edric HolmesAvebury Church, just without the rampart, was originally a Saxon building, its aisles being Norman additions.
Wanderings in Wessex | Edric HolmesThe literature of Avebury, not quite so copious as that of the stones of the Plain, is also more diffident in its guessing.
Wanderings in Wessex | Edric Holmes
British Dictionary definitions for Avebury
/ (ˈeɪvbərɪ) /
a village in Wiltshire, site of an extensive Neolithic stone circle
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