Definition of monolith
1 : a single great stone often in the form of an obelisk or column A granite monolith stands at the center of the park.
2 : a massive structure The 70-story monolith is one of Europe's tallest buildings.
3 : an organized whole that acts as a single unified powerful or influential force The movie company grew into a monolith of the entertainment industry.
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Examples of monolith in a Sentence
The new office building is a massive steel and concrete monolith.
The media monolith owns a number of networks.
Recent Examples of monolith from the Web
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These Tuesday, July 18 webcam photos provided by the Yosemite Conservancy show the monolith known as Half Dome as smoke from the Detwiler Fire swirls into Yosemite Valley.
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The home-sharing monolith and hotel industry are being put to the test in this editors' debate.
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Without wading too far into spoiler territory, Mija slowly has to integrate herself with this capitalist monolith of a company in order to even get a shot at saving Okja.
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For 20-odd hours you’d been fed a generic tale of revenge, and then suddenly Monolith decided to upend Tolkien’s whole universe and create a (paradoxical) second One Ring.
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This was the NFL before the league became a massive monolith, before professional football had become the biggest sports business in America.
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Still, the poll results show that rural America is far from a monolith.
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Still, the poll results show that rural America is far from a monolith.
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Still, the poll results show that rural America is far from a monolith.
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Origin and Etymology of monolith
French monolithe, from monolithe consisting of a single stone, from Latin monolithus, from Greek monolithos, from mon- + lithos stone
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playDefinition of monolith for English Language Learners
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: a very large stone that is usually tall and narrow; especially : a stone that was put in position by people as a monument or for religious reasons
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: a very large building or other structure
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: a very large and powerful organization that acts as a single unit
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