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UK
/mˈɒnəʊlˌɪθ/
]
[ US /ˈmɑnəˌɫɪθ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɑnəˌɫɪθ/ ]
NOUN
- a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
How To Use monolith In A Sentence
- Begun in about 3100 B.C. and altered during the next two millennia, Stonehenge incorporates outsize monoliths quarried far from its site on Salisbury Plain in southern England.
- Evidence such as this serves to undermine the apparently monolithic edifice of Victorianism.
- With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith.
- At the end of the path was a doorway, which led into one of the monolithic buildings.
- The phrase suggests a monolithic entity with a single purpose.
- The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
- On a basic level, the destruction of these austere cuboid monoliths on our skyline has provoked us to reflect on what buildings mean.
- Above the cornice is another monolith, the lower part squared and the upper shaped into a pyramid. History of Phoenicia
- Just as dodecaphony never followed a monolithic party line, neither did neoclassicism.
- Industrial buildings tend to be large, monolithic, brown, bulky, and not subtle.