monolith

noun

mono·lith ˈmä-nə-ˌlith

Synonyms of monolith next

: a single great stone often in the form of an obelisk or column

A granite monolith stands at the center of the park.

: a massive structure

The 70-story monolith is one of Europe's tallest buildings.

: an organized whole that acts as a single unified powerful or influential force

The movie company grew into a monolith of the entertainment industry.

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 on the Web Now, a fresh crop of cookbooks crisply dispense with the notion that Indian food is a monolith. —

Meher Mirza, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023 Other great reads How UCLA is trying to break the myth of the Latino monolith. —

Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023 The great, ongoing experiment Flexible work is hardly a monolith, Collison pointed out. —

Jane Thier, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023 Of course, hip-hop is no monolith and there is no consensus about its corporate embrace. —

Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023 The Bean Center is scaled accordingly, with more than a million and a half square feet packed into a three-story monolith. —

Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023 The sky-high monolith that’s part of Gillette’s glow-up looked like a monument to a glorious past that feels further and further afield from the field. —

Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023 Paramount Pictures is partnering with the tech monolith on distribution. —

Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023 Snowfalls coat its granite monoliths, and cold temperatures turn parts of Yosemite Falls to ice. —

Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023 See More

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