monolith

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Government, Architecturemonolithmon‧o‧lith /ˈmɒnəlɪθ $ ˈmɑː-/ noun [countable] 1 PGCONTROLa 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.2 RFAAa large tall block of stone, especially one that was put in place in ancient times, possibly for religious reasonsExamples from the Corpusmonolith• Women, of course, are not a monolith, any more than men are.• Luisenlund Bronze Age monoliths and the rift valley of Ekkodal.• Funny old motels like the No-Tel are making way for the bland beige monoliths of world-wide corporate culture.• The Hotel Dunbar was a pink and chocolate-colored brick monolith on 42nd Street.• the collapse of the Communist monolith in Eastern Europe• My memos are spitballs in the face of the faceless monolith where I work.• The great monolith of my ambition.• On the other side of the gorge stood a line of eight irregularly shaped monoliths.• The main eye-catcher about the Plomosas is the sprawling monolith of Black Mesa.• Over to your right in the distance, half-hidden by a fold of land, is a broken circle of stone monoliths.Origin monolith (1800-1900) French monolithe, from Latin, from Greek, from mono- ( → MONO-) + lithos “stone”

单词	monolith
释义	monolith From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Government, Architecturemonolithmon‧o‧lith /ˈmɒnəlɪθ $ ˈmɑː-/ noun [countable] 1 PGCONTROLa 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.2 RFAAa large tall block of stone, especially one that was put in place in ancient times, possibly for religious reasonsExamples from the Corpusmonolith• Women, of course, are not a monolith, any more than men are.• Luisenlund Bronze Age monoliths and the rift valley of Ekkodal.• Funny old motels like the No-Tel are making way for the bland beige monoliths of world-wide corporate culture.• The Hotel Dunbar was a pink and chocolate-colored brick monolith on 42nd Street.• the collapse of the Communist monolith in Eastern Europe• My memos are spitballs in the face of the faceless monolith where I work.• The great monolith of my ambition.• On the other side of the gorge stood a line of eight irregularly shaped monoliths.• The main eye-catcher about the Plomosas is the sprawling monolith of Black Mesa.• Over to your right in the distance, half-hidden by a fold of land, is a broken circle of stone monoliths.Origin monolith (1800-1900) French monolithe, from Latin, from Greek, from mono- ( → MONO-) + lithos “stone”
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