monolith
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
monolith (plural monoliths)
- A large single block of stone, used in architecture and sculpture.
- Anything massive, uniform and unmovable, especially a towering social, political, or cultural structure.
- 14 November 2018, Jesse Hassenger, AV Club Disney goes viral with an ambitious, overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph sequel
- Intentionally or not, the movie makes Disney feel as enormous as the internet itself, containing a series of micro-targeted idiosyncrasies and in-jokes that are nonetheless controlled by a cultural monolith (whether that’s Disney or whatever massive corporation owns your local ISP).
- 1996, Femi Ojo-Ade, Being Black, Being Human: More Essays on Black Culture (page 157)
- For whatever reason, one knows that the Senegalese poet-president became the Father of the ideology, cleverly weaving a network of cultural contributions and atavistic, essential, and behavioral components into a kind of black monolith hardly acceptable to anyone.
- 14 November 2018, Jesse Hassenger, AV Club Disney goes viral with an ambitious, overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph sequel
- (chemistry, chromatography) A continuous stationary-phase cast#Verb|cast as a homogeneous column in a single piece.
- (anything massive, uniform and unmovable) chimera
- Portuguese: monólito
- Russian: моноли́т
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