Next time you visit the nation’s capital, you can wow tourists by telling them the Washington Monument is an obelisk a tall, narrow stone pillar that tapers to a point at the top and commemorates an important person or event.
An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
Noun
a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top
Noun
a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
n.
An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it
rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily
monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic
writing from top to bottom.
n.
A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See
Dagger, n., 2.
v. t.
To mark or designate with an obelisk.
Obelisk
Obelisk
An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
To mark or designate with an obelisk.
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