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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monolith \Mon"o*lith\, n. [F. monolithe, L. monolithus
     consisting of a single stone, Gr. ?; mo`nos single + li`qos
     stone.]
     A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a
     pillar, statue, or monument.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  monolith
       n : a single great stone (often in the form of a column or
           obelisk)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "monolith":
     aa, abyssal rock, arch, barrow, basalt, bedrock, block lava,
     boundary stone, brash, brass, breccia, bust, cairn, cenotaph,
     column, conglomerate, crag, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith,
     dolmen, druid stone, festooned pahoehoe, footstone, gneiss,
     granite, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, igneous rock,
     inscription, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock,
     marker, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch,
     memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir,
     metamorphic rock, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary,
     pahoehoe, pillar, pillow lava, plaque, porphyry, prize,
     pudding stone, pyramid, regolith, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon,
     rock, ropy lava, rostral column, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone,
     sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shaft,
     shelly pahoehoe, shrine, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, talus,
     testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy, tufa, tuff
  
  

















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