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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A large block of stone, especially one used in architecture or sculpture.
  2. n. Something, such as a column or monument, made from one large block of stone.
  3. n. Something suggestive of a large block of stone, as in immovability, massiveness, or uniformity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A single stone; by extension, any structure or object in stone formed of a single piece: it may be an independent monument standing alone, as an Egyptian obelisk, or a menhir, or any part of a structure, as a column.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large single block of stone, used in architecture and sculpture.
  2. n. Anything massive, uniform and unmovable.
  3. n. chemistry A continuous stationary-phase cast as a homogeneous column in a single piece.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a single great stone (often in the form of column or obelisk)

Etymologies

  1. From French monolithe, from Latin monolithus "consisting of a single stone", from Ancient Greek μονόλιθος monolithos, from μόνος monos "single, alone" + λίθος lithos "stone". (Wiktionary)
  2. French monolithe, from Greek monolithos, consisting of a single stone : mono-, mono- + lithos, stone. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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