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monolith - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large block of stone, especially one used in architecture or sculpture.
- noun Something, such as a column or monument, made from one large block of stone.
- noun Something suggestive of a large block of stone, as in immovability, massiveness, or uniformity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A single stone; by extension, any structure or object in stone formed of a single piece: it may be an independent monument standing alone, as an Egyptian obelisk, or a menhir, or any part of a structure, as a column.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large single block of
stone , used inarchitecture andsculpture . - noun Anything
massive ,uniform andunmovable . - noun chemistry A continuous stationary-phase
cast as ahomogeneous column in a single piece.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French monolithe, from Greek monolithos, consisting of a single stone : mono-, mono- + lithos, stone.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From French monolithe, from Latin monolithus "consisting of a single stone", from Ancient Greek μονόλιθος monolithos, from μόνος monos "single, alone" + λίθος lithos "stone".
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Examples
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This high-tech waste monolith is a heap of contradictions.
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Today's YouTube videos: iPhone monolith is the next entry in this blog.
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But one advantage of being the corporate monolith is they are open when I need them the most.
coffee philosophy in a cardboard cup « Adventures in Juggling 2006
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Problem: I don't believe the west, as a monolith, is ready to confront the Islamos in this (or any actually) way.
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But one advantage of being the corporate monolith is they are open when I need them the most.
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The true height of this wonderful monolith is over seventy feet, between thirty and forty of which are hidden under the accumulated soil of many centuries.
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As one has said, "You have here a brotherhood of clustered peaks, and there the solitude of a mountain monolith; here you have a gladsome glade, and there a chilling glacier; here an inviting grove, and there a gloomy cavern; here a friendly valley with green grass and purple flower, and there a frowning cliff; here you have a raging torrent, and there a laughing cascade; here a rushing river, and there a placid stream."
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But the point about indys not being a monolith is a good one to keep in mind.
Progressives and centrists battle over meaning of indy vote Greg Sargent 2010
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This is now the most obvious split that the regime is tearing apart, and its portrayal of itself as a monolith is a facade.
Cynthia Boaz: Grand Ayatollah's pronouncement is sign of disintegrating regime 2009
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The Black church is often spoken of as though it is a huge monolith, that is not divided by denomination.
Archive 2009-09-01 Renee 2009
Related Words
synonyms (92)
Words with the same meaning
- aa
- abyssal rock
- arch
- barrow
- basalt
- bedrock
- block lava
- boundary stone
- brash
- brass
- breccia
- bust
- cairn
- cenotaph
- column
- conglomerate
- crag
- cromlech
- cross
- cup
- cyclolith
- dolmen
- druid stone
- festooned pahoehoe
- footstone
- gneiss
- granite
- grave
- gravestone
- headstone
- hoarstone
- igneous rock
- inscription
- lava
- limestone
- living rock
- magma
- mantlerock
- marker
- mausoleum
- megalith
- memento
- memorial
- memorial arch
- memorial column
- memorial statue
- memorial stone
- menhir
- metamorphic rock
- monument
- mound
- necrology
- obelisk
- obituary
- pahoehoe
- pillar
- pillow lava
- plaque
- porphyry
- prize
- pudding stone
- pyramid
- regolith
- reliquary
- remembrance
- ribbon
- rock
- ropy lava
- rostral column
- rubble
- rubblestone
- sandstone
- sarsen
- schist
- scoria
- scree
- sedimentary rock
- shaft
- shelly pahoehoe
- shrine
- stela
- stone
- stupa
- tablet
- talus
- testimonial
- tomb
- tombstone
- tope
- trophy
- tufa
- tuff
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