单词	monolith
释义	monolithmon‧o‧lith /ˈmɒnəlɪθ $ ˈmɑː-/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINmonolith Origin: 1800-1900 French monolithe, from Latin, from Greek, from mono- ( ➔ MONO-) + lithos ‘stone’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES the collapse of the Communist monolith in Eastern Europe The Hotel Dunbar was a pink and chocolate-colored brick monolith on 42nd Street. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Funny old motels like the No-Tel are making way for the bland beige monoliths of world-wide corporate culture. Luisenlund Bronze Age monoliths and the rift valley of Ekkodal. My memos are spitballs in the face of the faceless monolith where I work. On the other side of the gorge stood a line of eight irregularly shaped monoliths. Over to your right in the distance, half-hidden by a fold of land, is a broken circle of stone monoliths. The great monolith of my ambition. The main eye-catcher about the Plomosas is the sprawling monolith of Black Mesa. Women, of course, are not a monolith, any more than men are. word sets WORD SETS► Architecture arcade, nounarch, nounarchitect, nounarchitecture, nounatrium, nounbailey, nounbastion, nouncampanile, nouncapital, nouncaryatid, nouncloistered, adjectivecolonial, adjectiveconservationist, nounCorinthian, adjectivecornice, noundolmen, noundome, noundomed, adjectiveDoric, adjectivefloor plan, nounflying buttress, nounfolly, nounGeorgian, adjectiveGothic, adjectiveground plan, nounIonic, adjectivemodernism, nounmonolith, nounmonument, nounmonumental, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveobelisk, nounopen-plan, adjectivepedestal, nounpediment, nounperistyle, nounpitched, adjectiveplinth, nounplot, nounportico, nounquadrangle, nounrambling, adjectiverampart, nounrococo, adjectiveRomanesque, adjectivescreen, nounspan, nounsplit-level, adjectivesquare, nounstonework, nounterrace, nountracery, nountransept, nountruss, nounvaulted, adjectivevaulting, nounvestibule, noun 1a large powerful organization that cannot change quickly and does not consider the ideas or feelings of the people it affects:  It is misleading to see the legal system as a monolith.2a large tall block of stone, especially one that was put in place in ancient times, possibly for religious reasons
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