Definition of monolith in English:

monolith

noun ˈmɒn(ə)lɪθˈmɑnəˌlɪθ

1A large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument.
（尤指凿成柱或纪念碑的）独块巨石
we passed Stonehenge, the strange stone monoliths silhouetted against the horizon
Example sentencesExamples
- Made from a single slab of andesite weighing at least 10 tons, this monolith is carved in the form of a doorway with niches on either side.
- The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered.
- We explored his hideout en route to the southern hemisphere's second-largest single monolith, Bald Rock.
- Six of these carved monoliths are enormous tombstones, from 17 to 37 meters tall, the tallest, now fallen, once stood at more than 30 meters.
- Experts from Germany are investigating the use of a chemical to stabilise the stone monoliths, which have become severely eroded.
- Upon the first day of his eighteenth year the ancients called him to the stone monolith.
- The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement.
- These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths that once dotted the landscape of Europe.
- 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.
- Apart from a bit of weathering, the Devil's Arrows - three Early Bronze Age monoliths - have stood unchanged in North Yorkshire for 4,000 years.
- The history of the area goes back much further than Byron, however, as the monoliths of Castlerigg Stone Circle testify.
- Arrowfield was named after the adjoining Devil's Arrows - three gritstone monoliths thought to date from the Bronze Age.
- It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves.
- The ancient monoliths, pyramids, stone circles and grand statues were not just art or architecture.
- The five explorers carefully crept through the ruins, past tall stone monoliths and crumbled walls.
- Indeed, hoisting monoliths that could weigh many tons demanded gigantic rigs.
- In the midpoint of the large plateau at the hilltop are two enormous stone monoliths, stretching like limestone skyscrapers into the crimson sky.
- The giant sandstone monolith reaches a height of 335 metres and measures 8.8 kilometres in circumference.
- It was only when she found herself standing before a massive pile of weathered stones, a huge, natural monolith, that she stopped.
- Aerial photography has revealed four later Neolithic cursus monuments converging on the hillock with the monolith, effectively boxing it in.
Synonyms
standing stone, menhir, sarsen (stone), megalith
1. 1.1 A very large and characterless building.
  巨大而又无特色的建筑
  the 72-storey monolith overlooking the waterfront
  俯瞰水岸的72层巨厦。
  Example sentencesExamples
  With a few simple words, official honesty was once again the order of business inside the glass-fronted monolith overlooking the East River.
  The shopping chain head office can be seen as a black monolith to the left.
  The original buildings were demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building, and were replaced with a 2,200-room, 42-storey art-deco monolith.
  The white monoliths of the towers are almost negative spaces, while the black surrounding them is luxuriously, expressively painted.
  He looked at them, one after the other, giant monoliths old and new, gargantuan towers assembled in the sky by human hands.
  Many were based in the twin glass and steel monoliths that made up the tallest building in the city at the hub of Western capitalism.
  Within the dark urban monolith that is the Tower building lies an organisation at the cutting edge of eco-tourism.
  The crumbling concrete monoliths, scattered around the country and particularly prevalent on the outskirts of major cities, are testament to an era when Greece tried to make the most of its low labour costs.
  They're in there somewhere, but good luck picking them out from behind all those space-hogging skyscrapers and corporate monoliths.
  When I approached the building, it sure didn't match the grand TV hospital drama-style towering monoliths of bustling health that I'd envisioned.
  In between Wanee's dingy store and those new monoliths sits a line of shuttered shopfronts with for sale signs.
  They drove across town through the thinning evening traffic and worked their way towards the brand new 52 story monolith known as the Conner tower.
  Glass, glass and more glass are the building materials for this monolith.
  A monolith in glass and concrete stands today in the place of the old colonial structure.
  There's no sign outside the concrete-and-glass monolith.
  The new Bullring has replaced the concrete monstrosities and monoliths which dominated the city.
  The organiser of the concerts took me outside the hotel one day, it is a huge monolith, and asked me if I noticed anything unusual about the design.
  The skyscrapers on the west side of Shinjuku station were the same; dark monoliths, corroded to half-height by the fog.
  He looks around some more, then goes outside and eyes the house, a dark monolith with a light in an upstairs room.
  The skyline is dominated by the nearby Palace of Culture, a monolith which Stalin constructed as a symbol of his power and as an answer to the skyscrapers of capitalism.
2. 1.2 A large block of concrete sunk in water, e.g. in the building of a dock.
  （沉入水中构筑码头等的）巨型混凝土块体
2A large, impersonal political, corporate, or social structure regarded as indivisible and slow to change.
铁板一块的巨大（政治、商业或社会）组织
independent voices have been crowded out by the media monoliths
Example sentencesExamples
- The division and splintering of local communities continues as the monoliths desperately seek to control and dominate.
- Government is no monolith, he explains, and its competing interests and agencies are always at war with one another.
- Moreover, the army was not a monolith, and military leadership not of one mind.
- The food monolith, with its chicken mills and slaughterhouses, wasn't created because its owners are cruel.
- With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith.
- The meeting is symbolic of Coleman's transition from a top executive at a corporate monolith to founder of a bootstrapping software company.
- Second, the dominance of broadcasting monoliths limits local programming, as the airwaves become saturated with national programs and syndicated fare.
- The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
- The struggle these days is between corporate monoliths and populations of workers.
- In reality, such identity typically reflects the control mechanism that cements the corporate body into a virtual monolith.
- If the Constitution becomes the basis for the enforceable spread of one sect's values, then evangelism really will have become a political monolith.
- New movements or schools of film-making in other countries tended to see Hollywood as a monolith against which one could productively bang one's head.
- Eschewing the model of the totalitarian monolith, Neumann's was the first influential attempt to analyse the structures of the regime in terms of a multitude of power blocs.
- What better way to attack the monolith of social repression than by attacking the ‘sanctity’ of the linear narrative?
- He also sometimes treats his cultural contexts as monoliths, leading him to generalize across class and national boundaries.
- The experience suggests that the monolith of corporate culture is only a partial reality.
- But perhaps a more serious issue is that most prior studies have examined the opinions of the public as a monolith.
- Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly.
- The result is that the Roman family has been treated as an undifferentiated monolith.
- ‘The psychological establishment is not a monolith; it is more like a parliament made up of small fractious parties,’ Garcia writes.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French monolithe, from Greek monolithos, from monos 'single' + lithos 'stone'.

Definition of monolith in US English:

monolith

nounˈmänəˌliTHˈmɑnəˌlɪθ

1A large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument.
（尤指凿成柱或纪念碑的）独块巨石
Example sentencesExamples
- Apart from a bit of weathering, the Devil's Arrows - three Early Bronze Age monoliths - have stood unchanged in North Yorkshire for 4,000 years.
- It was only when she found herself standing before a massive pile of weathered stones, a huge, natural monolith, that she stopped.
- In the midpoint of the large plateau at the hilltop are two enormous stone monoliths, stretching like limestone skyscrapers into the crimson sky.
- These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths that once dotted the landscape of Europe.
- The ancient monoliths, pyramids, stone circles and grand statues were not just art or architecture.
- Indeed, hoisting monoliths that could weigh many tons demanded gigantic rigs.
- Experts from Germany are investigating the use of a chemical to stabilise the stone monoliths, which have become severely eroded.
- The history of the area goes back much further than Byron, however, as the monoliths of Castlerigg Stone Circle testify.
- The five explorers carefully crept through the ruins, past tall stone monoliths and crumbled walls.
- The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered.
- Upon the first day of his eighteenth year the ancients called him to the stone monolith.
- The giant sandstone monolith reaches a height of 335 metres and measures 8.8 kilometres in circumference.
- Six of these carved monoliths are enormous tombstones, from 17 to 37 meters tall, the tallest, now fallen, once stood at more than 30 meters.
- 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.
- Arrowfield was named after the adjoining Devil's Arrows - three gritstone monoliths thought to date from the Bronze Age.
- We explored his hideout en route to the southern hemisphere's second-largest single monolith, Bald Rock.
- The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement.
- Made from a single slab of andesite weighing at least 10 tons, this monolith is carved in the form of a doorway with niches on either side.
- It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves.
- Aerial photography has revealed four later Neolithic cursus monuments converging on the hillock with the monolith, effectively boxing it in.
Synonyms
standing stone, menhir, sarsen, sarsen stone, megalith
1. 1.1 A very large and characterless building.
  巨大而又无特色的建筑
  the 72-story monolith overlooking the waterfront
  俯瞰水岸的72层巨厦。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In between Wanee's dingy store and those new monoliths sits a line of shuttered shopfronts with for sale signs.
  Glass, glass and more glass are the building materials for this monolith.
  Within the dark urban monolith that is the Tower building lies an organisation at the cutting edge of eco-tourism.
  The shopping chain head office can be seen as a black monolith to the left.
  The skyscrapers on the west side of Shinjuku station were the same; dark monoliths, corroded to half-height by the fog.
  The original buildings were demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building, and were replaced with a 2,200-room, 42-storey art-deco monolith.
  With a few simple words, official honesty was once again the order of business inside the glass-fronted monolith overlooking the East River.
  They're in there somewhere, but good luck picking them out from behind all those space-hogging skyscrapers and corporate monoliths.
  The new Bullring has replaced the concrete monstrosities and monoliths which dominated the city.
  Many were based in the twin glass and steel monoliths that made up the tallest building in the city at the hub of Western capitalism.
  There's no sign outside the concrete-and-glass monolith.
  He looks around some more, then goes outside and eyes the house, a dark monolith with a light in an upstairs room.
  They drove across town through the thinning evening traffic and worked their way towards the brand new 52 story monolith known as the Conner tower.
  He looked at them, one after the other, giant monoliths old and new, gargantuan towers assembled in the sky by human hands.
  A monolith in glass and concrete stands today in the place of the old colonial structure.
  The organiser of the concerts took me outside the hotel one day, it is a huge monolith, and asked me if I noticed anything unusual about the design.
  The crumbling concrete monoliths, scattered around the country and particularly prevalent on the outskirts of major cities, are testament to an era when Greece tried to make the most of its low labour costs.
  When I approached the building, it sure didn't match the grand TV hospital drama-style towering monoliths of bustling health that I'd envisioned.
  The skyline is dominated by the nearby Palace of Culture, a monolith which Stalin constructed as a symbol of his power and as an answer to the skyscrapers of capitalism.
  The white monoliths of the towers are almost negative spaces, while the black surrounding them is luxuriously, expressively painted.
2. 1.2 A large block of concrete sunk in water, e.g. in the building of a dock.
  （沉入水中构筑码头等的）巨型混凝土块体
2A large and impersonal political, corporate, or social structure regarded as intractably indivisible and uniform.
铁板一块的巨大（政治、商业或社会）组织
the dominance of broadcasting monoliths limits local programming
Example sentencesExamples
- But perhaps a more serious issue is that most prior studies have examined the opinions of the public as a monolith.
- Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly.
- Moreover, the army was not a monolith, and military leadership not of one mind.
- If the Constitution becomes the basis for the enforceable spread of one sect's values, then evangelism really will have become a political monolith.
- With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith.
- ‘The psychological establishment is not a monolith; it is more like a parliament made up of small fractious parties,’ Garcia writes.
- The struggle these days is between corporate monoliths and populations of workers.
- The meeting is symbolic of Coleman's transition from a top executive at a corporate monolith to founder of a bootstrapping software company.
- In reality, such identity typically reflects the control mechanism that cements the corporate body into a virtual monolith.
- The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
- The food monolith, with its chicken mills and slaughterhouses, wasn't created because its owners are cruel.
- What better way to attack the monolith of social repression than by attacking the ‘sanctity’ of the linear narrative?
- Second, the dominance of broadcasting monoliths limits local programming, as the airwaves become saturated with national programs and syndicated fare.
- Eschewing the model of the totalitarian monolith, Neumann's was the first influential attempt to analyse the structures of the regime in terms of a multitude of power blocs.
- The experience suggests that the monolith of corporate culture is only a partial reality.
- The division and splintering of local communities continues as the monoliths desperately seek to control and dominate.
- He also sometimes treats his cultural contexts as monoliths, leading him to generalize across class and national boundaries.
- New movements or schools of film-making in other countries tended to see Hollywood as a monolith against which one could productively bang one's head.
- The result is that the Roman family has been treated as an undifferentiated monolith.
- Government is no monolith, he explains, and its competing interests and agencies are always at war with one another.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French monolithe, from Greek monolithos, from monos ‘single’ + lithos ‘stone’.

单词	monolith
释义	Definition of monolith in English: monolith noun ˈmɒn(ə)lɪθˈmɑnəˌlɪθ 1A large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument. （尤指凿成柱或纪念碑的）独块巨石 we passed Stonehenge, the strange stone monoliths silhouetted against the horizon Example sentencesExamples Made from a single slab of andesite weighing at least 10 tons, this monolith is carved in the form of a doorway with niches on either side. The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered. We explored his hideout en route to the southern hemisphere's second-largest single monolith, Bald Rock. Six of these carved monoliths are enormous tombstones, from 17 to 37 meters tall, the tallest, now fallen, once stood at more than 30 meters. Experts from Germany are investigating the use of a chemical to stabilise the stone monoliths, which have become severely eroded. Upon the first day of his eighteenth year the ancients called him to the stone monolith. The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement. These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths that once dotted the landscape of Europe. 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. Apart from a bit of weathering, the Devil's Arrows - three Early Bronze Age monoliths - have stood unchanged in North Yorkshire for 4,000 years. The history of the area goes back much further than Byron, however, as the monoliths of Castlerigg Stone Circle testify. Arrowfield was named after the adjoining Devil's Arrows - three gritstone monoliths thought to date from the Bronze Age. It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves. The ancient monoliths, pyramids, stone circles and grand statues were not just art or architecture. The five explorers carefully crept through the ruins, past tall stone monoliths and crumbled walls. Indeed, hoisting monoliths that could weigh many tons demanded gigantic rigs. In the midpoint of the large plateau at the hilltop are two enormous stone monoliths, stretching like limestone skyscrapers into the crimson sky. The giant sandstone monolith reaches a height of 335 metres and measures 8.8 kilometres in circumference. It was only when she found herself standing before a massive pile of weathered stones, a huge, natural monolith, that she stopped. Aerial photography has revealed four later Neolithic cursus monuments converging on the hillock with the monolith, effectively boxing it in. Synonyms standing stone, menhir, sarsen (stone), megalith 1.1 A very large and characterless building. 巨大而又无特色的建筑 the 72-storey monolith overlooking the waterfront 俯瞰水岸的72层巨厦。 Example sentencesExamples With a few simple words, official honesty was once again the order of business inside the glass-fronted monolith overlooking the East River. The shopping chain head office can be seen as a black monolith to the left. The original buildings were demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building, and were replaced with a 2,200-room, 42-storey art-deco monolith. The white monoliths of the towers are almost negative spaces, while the black surrounding them is luxuriously, expressively painted. He looked at them, one after the other, giant monoliths old and new, gargantuan towers assembled in the sky by human hands. Many were based in the twin glass and steel monoliths that made up the tallest building in the city at the hub of Western capitalism. Within the dark urban monolith that is the Tower building lies an organisation at the cutting edge of eco-tourism. The crumbling concrete monoliths, scattered around the country and particularly prevalent on the outskirts of major cities, are testament to an era when Greece tried to make the most of its low labour costs. They're in there somewhere, but good luck picking them out from behind all those space-hogging skyscrapers and corporate monoliths. When I approached the building, it sure didn't match the grand TV hospital drama-style towering monoliths of bustling health that I'd envisioned. In between Wanee's dingy store and those new monoliths sits a line of shuttered shopfronts with for sale signs. They drove across town through the thinning evening traffic and worked their way towards the brand new 52 story monolith known as the Conner tower. Glass, glass and more glass are the building materials for this monolith. A monolith in glass and concrete stands today in the place of the old colonial structure. There's no sign outside the concrete-and-glass monolith. The new Bullring has replaced the concrete monstrosities and monoliths which dominated the city. The organiser of the concerts took me outside the hotel one day, it is a huge monolith, and asked me if I noticed anything unusual about the design. The skyscrapers on the west side of Shinjuku station were the same; dark monoliths, corroded to half-height by the fog. He looks around some more, then goes outside and eyes the house, a dark monolith with a light in an upstairs room. The skyline is dominated by the nearby Palace of Culture, a monolith which Stalin constructed as a symbol of his power and as an answer to the skyscrapers of capitalism. 1.2 A large block of concrete sunk in water, e.g. in the building of a dock. （沉入水中构筑码头等的）巨型混凝土块体 2A large, impersonal political, corporate, or social structure regarded as indivisible and slow to change. 铁板一块的巨大（政治、商业或社会）组织 independent voices have been crowded out by the media monoliths Example sentencesExamples The division and splintering of local communities continues as the monoliths desperately seek to control and dominate. Government is no monolith, he explains, and its competing interests and agencies are always at war with one another. Moreover, the army was not a monolith, and military leadership not of one mind. The food monolith, with its chicken mills and slaughterhouses, wasn't created because its owners are cruel. With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith. The meeting is symbolic of Coleman's transition from a top executive at a corporate monolith to founder of a bootstrapping software company. Second, the dominance of broadcasting monoliths limits local programming, as the airwaves become saturated with national programs and syndicated fare. The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred. The struggle these days is between corporate monoliths and populations of workers. In reality, such identity typically reflects the control mechanism that cements the corporate body into a virtual monolith. If the Constitution becomes the basis for the enforceable spread of one sect's values, then evangelism really will have become a political monolith. New movements or schools of film-making in other countries tended to see Hollywood as a monolith against which one could productively bang one's head. Eschewing the model of the totalitarian monolith, Neumann's was the first influential attempt to analyse the structures of the regime in terms of a multitude of power blocs. What better way to attack the monolith of social repression than by attacking the ‘sanctity’ of the linear narrative? He also sometimes treats his cultural contexts as monoliths, leading him to generalize across class and national boundaries. The experience suggests that the monolith of corporate culture is only a partial reality. But perhaps a more serious issue is that most prior studies have examined the opinions of the public as a monolith. Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly. The result is that the Roman family has been treated as an undifferentiated monolith. ‘The psychological establishment is not a monolith; it is more like a parliament made up of small fractious parties,’ Garcia writes. Origin Mid 19th century: from French monolithe, from Greek monolithos, from monos 'single' + lithos 'stone'. Definition of monolith in US English: monolith nounˈmänəˌliTHˈmɑnəˌlɪθ 1A large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument. （尤指凿成柱或纪念碑的）独块巨石 Example sentencesExamples Apart from a bit of weathering, the Devil's Arrows - three Early Bronze Age monoliths - have stood unchanged in North Yorkshire for 4,000 years. It was only when she found herself standing before a massive pile of weathered stones, a huge, natural monolith, that she stopped. In the midpoint of the large plateau at the hilltop are two enormous stone monoliths, stretching like limestone skyscrapers into the crimson sky. These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths that once dotted the landscape of Europe. The ancient monoliths, pyramids, stone circles and grand statues were not just art or architecture. Indeed, hoisting monoliths that could weigh many tons demanded gigantic rigs. Experts from Germany are investigating the use of a chemical to stabilise the stone monoliths, which have become severely eroded. The history of the area goes back much further than Byron, however, as the monoliths of Castlerigg Stone Circle testify. The five explorers carefully crept through the ruins, past tall stone monoliths and crumbled walls. The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered. Upon the first day of his eighteenth year the ancients called him to the stone monolith. The giant sandstone monolith reaches a height of 335 metres and measures 8.8 kilometres in circumference. Six of these carved monoliths are enormous tombstones, from 17 to 37 meters tall, the tallest, now fallen, once stood at more than 30 meters. 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. Arrowfield was named after the adjoining Devil's Arrows - three gritstone monoliths thought to date from the Bronze Age. We explored his hideout en route to the southern hemisphere's second-largest single monolith, Bald Rock. The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement. Made from a single slab of andesite weighing at least 10 tons, this monolith is carved in the form of a doorway with niches on either side. It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves. Aerial photography has revealed four later Neolithic cursus monuments converging on the hillock with the monolith, effectively boxing it in. Synonyms standing stone, menhir, sarsen, sarsen stone, megalith 1.1 A very large and characterless building. 巨大而又无特色的建筑 the 72-story monolith overlooking the waterfront 俯瞰水岸的72层巨厦。 Example sentencesExamples In between Wanee's dingy store and those new monoliths sits a line of shuttered shopfronts with for sale signs. Glass, glass and more glass are the building materials for this monolith. Within the dark urban monolith that is the Tower building lies an organisation at the cutting edge of eco-tourism. The shopping chain head office can be seen as a black monolith to the left. The skyscrapers on the west side of Shinjuku station were the same; dark monoliths, corroded to half-height by the fog. The original buildings were demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building, and were replaced with a 2,200-room, 42-storey art-deco monolith. With a few simple words, official honesty was once again the order of business inside the glass-fronted monolith overlooking the East River. They're in there somewhere, but good luck picking them out from behind all those space-hogging skyscrapers and corporate monoliths. The new Bullring has replaced the concrete monstrosities and monoliths which dominated the city. Many were based in the twin glass and steel monoliths that made up the tallest building in the city at the hub of Western capitalism. There's no sign outside the concrete-and-glass monolith. He looks around some more, then goes outside and eyes the house, a dark monolith with a light in an upstairs room. They drove across town through the thinning evening traffic and worked their way towards the brand new 52 story monolith known as the Conner tower. He looked at them, one after the other, giant monoliths old and new, gargantuan towers assembled in the sky by human hands. A monolith in glass and concrete stands today in the place of the old colonial structure. The organiser of the concerts took me outside the hotel one day, it is a huge monolith, and asked me if I noticed anything unusual about the design. The crumbling concrete monoliths, scattered around the country and particularly prevalent on the outskirts of major cities, are testament to an era when Greece tried to make the most of its low labour costs. When I approached the building, it sure didn't match the grand TV hospital drama-style towering monoliths of bustling health that I'd envisioned. The skyline is dominated by the nearby Palace of Culture, a monolith which Stalin constructed as a symbol of his power and as an answer to the skyscrapers of capitalism. The white monoliths of the towers are almost negative spaces, while the black surrounding them is luxuriously, expressively painted. 1.2 A large block of concrete sunk in water, e.g. in the building of a dock. （沉入水中构筑码头等的）巨型混凝土块体 2A large and impersonal political, corporate, or social structure regarded as intractably indivisible and uniform. 铁板一块的巨大（政治、商业或社会）组织 the dominance of broadcasting monoliths limits local programming Example sentencesExamples But perhaps a more serious issue is that most prior studies have examined the opinions of the public as a monolith. Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly. Moreover, the army was not a monolith, and military leadership not of one mind. If the Constitution becomes the basis for the enforceable spread of one sect's values, then evangelism really will have become a political monolith. With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith. ‘The psychological establishment is not a monolith; it is more like a parliament made up of small fractious parties,’ Garcia writes. The struggle these days is between corporate monoliths and populations of workers. The meeting is symbolic of Coleman's transition from a top executive at a corporate monolith to founder of a bootstrapping software company. In reality, such identity typically reflects the control mechanism that cements the corporate body into a virtual monolith. The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred. The food monolith, with its chicken mills and slaughterhouses, wasn't created because its owners are cruel. What better way to attack the monolith of social repression than by attacking the ‘sanctity’ of the linear narrative? Second, the dominance of broadcasting monoliths limits local programming, as the airwaves become saturated with national programs and syndicated fare. Eschewing the model of the totalitarian monolith, Neumann's was the first influential attempt to analyse the structures of the regime in terms of a multitude of power blocs. The experience suggests that the monolith of corporate culture is only a partial reality. The division and splintering of local communities continues as the monoliths desperately seek to control and dominate. He also sometimes treats his cultural contexts as monoliths, leading him to generalize across class and national boundaries. New movements or schools of film-making in other countries tended to see Hollywood as a monolith against which one could productively bang one's head. The result is that the Roman family has been treated as an undifferentiated monolith. Government is no monolith, he explains, and its competing interests and agencies are always at war with one another. Origin Mid 19th century: from French monolithe, from Greek monolithos, from monos ‘single’ + lithos ‘stone’.
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