Thesaurus results for OBELISK

obelisk

noun

as in monument

a tall, four-sided stone column that becomes narrower toward the top and that ends in a point The granite obelisk stands at the exact center of the park.

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Recent Examples of obelisk The section of the wall that police broke through to rescue those trapped inside Pulse—the breach wall—will be embedded beneath the obelisk. —

R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 Projected on an obelisk, this narrowest of histories prefigured the commemorative distortions to follow. —

Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026 The structure can be a homemade or a commercial trellis, arch, obelisk, or lattice wall. —

Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 May 2026 Since then, the white obelisk has received many spectacular games. —

George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for obelisk

Recent Examples of Synonyms for obelisk

Noun

Today there are various monuments on the land, including Revolutionary War, World War I and II, Spanish American War and Vietnam War.

— Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
Inside, the house reads less as a monument to excess than a deft riposte to the cold minimalism of decades past.

— Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026

Definition of monument

Noun

One of the site’s 36 pillars — the tallest one in the middle — could be a perch for a big, pink, screeching bird.

— Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Its success or failure could help determine whether battery repurposing becomes a niche practice or a major pillar of the future energy-storage industry.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 28 June 2026