Definitions for monolith

monolith mon·o·lith

Spelling: [mon-uh-lith]
IPA: /ˈmɒn ə lɪθ/

Monolith is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in monolith (hilmnoot).

Definitions for monolith

noun

  1. an obelisk, column, large statue, etc., formed of a single block of stone.
  2. a single block or piece of stone of considerable size, especially when used in architecture or sculpture.
  3. something having a uniform, massive, redoubtable, or inflexible quality or character.

Origin of monolith

1820-30; Latin monolithus Greek monólithos made of one stone. See mono-, -lith

Examples for monolith

Hey, you remember that scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the monkeys were puzzling over the monolith?

It is a monolith, cut from a block of stone about eleven feet in height.

The whole company bent their efforts to displacing the monolith.

Its personality cult, rigid conformity and fire-breathing rhetoric notwithstanding, North Korea is not a monolith.

The total height of the monument is 52-1/4 feet, and that of the monolith about 20 feet.

Above us was a tower of rock,—another 'tor,' I suppose, if not a 'monolith.'

With a computer that goes bad and the mystery of the monolith and the indescribable ending that nobody could understand.

Abrams against harnessed that monolith them, the American Jewish leaders, whom Abrams presumed to speak for.

To this we must answer that every colossus as yet discovered in Egypt is a monolith.

The Palestinian monolith will never accept Israel, Romney's saying.

Word Value for monolith
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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