Avebury

[ eyv-buh-ree ]

noun
  1. 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.

  • It was Dr. Martineau who presently brought this disquisition upon Avebury to a stop by a very remarkable gesture.

  • In the last part of this sentence the great doctor either forgets, or shows his ignorance of, the antiquities at Avebury.

    Wanderings in Wessex | Edric Holmes
  • Avebury Church, just without the rampart, was originally a Saxon building, its aisles being Norman additions.

    Wanderings in Wessex | Edric Holmes
  • The 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

Avebury

/ (ˈeɪvbərɪ) /


noun
  1. a village in Wiltshire, site of an extensive Neolithic stone circle

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