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
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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
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