All 4 Uses of
obelisk
in
The Graveyard Book
- Then he moved through the night, up and up, to the flat place below the brow of the hill, a place dominated by an obelisk and a flat stone set into the ground dedicated to the memory of Josiah Worthington, local brewer, politician and later baronet, who had, almost three hundred years before, bought the old cemetery and the land around it, and given it to the city in perpetuity.†
p. 20.8
- The horse paused beside the obelisk.†
p. 30.6 *
- He walked up the hill, to the black obelisk, and Josiah Worthington's stone, where there was a natural amphitheater, and he could look out at the Old Town and at the lights of the city around it.†
p. 163.2
- Silas returned to the graveyard and found Bod sitting in the amphitheater by the obelisk, his face set.†
p. 288.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(obelisk) a stone pillar with a pyramidal top erected as a monument to remember a person or event
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, obelisk references a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. The character looks a little like a dagger or cross. (See Wikipedia - Obelisk (typography) for pictures.)