The Only Use of
monolith
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- He paused, turning to the Cathedral of Learning, that slender gray monolith, a shadow against the night sky, to regain his bearings.†
p. 258.1
Definition:
a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
or:
a large organization -- often uniform in its approach or difficult to change
or:
a large organization -- often uniform in its approach or difficult to change