EGAVE

monolith

About 0.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times.
  2. noun Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure.
  3. noun A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc.
  4. noun A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by breaking off or cutting its branches.
  5. noun A heightist woman.
  6. verb To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith. To cast (one or more concrete components) in a single piece with no joints. To reduce the height and size of (a dead tree) by breaking off or cutting its branches.
  7. verb To cast (one or more concrete components) in a single piece with no joints.
  8. verb To reduce the height and size of (a dead tree) by breaking off or cutting its branches.

Similar words

colossus column slab monument cola discovery megalith obelisk standing stone block

Often followed by

of in is and that was with to which

Word family

monoliths

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