English-German translations for monolith

• Monolith der
  Sie wissen, dass die EU genau so ein Monolith ist. They know that the EU is just such a monolith.
  So wie jeder andere lehnen sie die Vorstellung eines alles reglementierenden Monolithen ab. They, as much as anyone, reject the concept of restrictive monoliths.
  Vor zwanzig Jahren hatten wir eine heldenhafte Bewegung der arbeitenden Bevölkerung in diesen Ländern, die den stalinistischen Monolithen gestürzt hat. Twenty years ago, we had an heroic movement of working people in those countries which brought down the Stalinist monolith.

Definition of monolith

• A large, single#Adjective|single block#Noun|block of stone#Noun|stone used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient time#Noun|times
• Anything massive, uniform#Adjective|uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering#Adjective|towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure#Noun|structure
• A substrate having many tiny channel#Noun|channels that is cast#Verb|cast as a single piece#Noun|piece, which is use#Verb|used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface#Noun|surface, etc

Related words

• monolithic
• monolithism
• monolithicity
• monolithicness
• monolithic device
• monolithic programming