1 a large single upright block of stone, especially one that was shaped into a column by people living in ancient times, and that may have had some religious meaning
2 (often disapproving) a single, very large organization, etc. that is very slow to change and not interested in individual people:
the monolith of the state
monolithic adjective:
a monolithic block * the monolithic structure of the state
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