A tall, four-sided shaft of stone, usually tapered and monolithic, that rises to a pointed pyramidal top. The dagger sign (†), used especially as a reference mark. Only heard of in myths, it is a very large cawk, almost like an obelisk. It usually preys on hot women. When erect, it will block out the sun. Only a few people have ever got to harness its true power.

noun

• 1A tapering stone pillar, typically having a square or rectangular cross section, set up as a monument or landmark.

  • ‘High above a hill in Oakwood Cemetery at Troy, New York, stands a huge obelisk, a monument to the life of Maj.’
  • ‘More than one-quarter of Australia's civic memorials are obelisks or columns - traditional cemetery forms.’
  • ‘The sad truth is that she's barely mentioned in the 3,000 years of effigies and hieroglyphics that cover the towering columns, needle-like obelisks and endless sarcophagi.’
  • ‘Most of its grandeur - all that street furniture of pillars, obelisks and pyramids - is the work of one man: Joze Plecnik, who studied in Prague.’
  • ‘Travelers to Egypt are still impressed with its great pyramids, slender obelisks and avenues of monuments.’
  • ‘Thus, at Treblinka, the memorial to those killed consists of 17,000 granite shards surrounding a large obelisk broken down the middle.’
  • ‘Over the past few years, the English archaeologist David Philipson has uncovered a dense underground network of burial chambers and connecting tunnels below them, proof that the obelisks were funeral monuments.’
  • ‘Porterfield ventures to propose that the obelisk was ‘a monument that advanced the culture and politics of an era, not a regime’.’
  • ‘Work involved the repair and cleaning of headstones, above-ground chambers, obelisks and monuments together with the construction of boundary walls and ornate railings.’
  • ‘The battle site was for many years recorded by a stone obelisk which stood on the bank of the river at Oldbridge but which was blown up in the early years of the 20th century.’
  • ‘All I could see, from a distance, were numerous hands vigorously hurling stones at the aforementioned obelisk.’
  • ‘Jordan arrived at work yesterday to find a stone obelisk in front of the restaurant toppled over.’
  • ‘Tall, stone obelisks and stellae exemplify the building skills of the people.’
  • ‘‘The obelisk is a remarkable landmark, but made even more important because it was one of the first such monuments to be built,’ he said.’
  • ‘I walked from the fort site three miles to the stone obelisk marking the place where Captain Fetterman and his men met their end in 1866.’
  • ‘Living in north Alton as a child, I played in the Confederate cemetery, both tree-shaded and open, green and lovely, with a granite obelisk monument to the dead.’
  • ‘From the orange obelisk monument of Ohakune, to the corrugated iron sheep and dog combo, outlandish structures remind us of the cargo-cult of tourism and a need to be noticed.’
  • ‘For instance, in 1676 the academicians of Aries undertook the reconstruction of a Roman obelisk excavated nearby under the supervision of the academy.’
  • ‘Finally in 1885 it was replaced by an obelisk known as Flinders' Column.’
  • ‘Lengthening shadows cast by giant stone structures, like obelisks or the pillars of Stonehenge, were used by ancient civilizations to measure time.’

  column, pillar, needle, shaft, monolith, monument, memorial

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  1. 1.1A mountain, tree, or other natural object resembling an obelisk in shape.

• 2

  ‘Scholarly notes are usually signalled by superscript numbers at appropriate points in a text, but such symbols as asterisks and obelisks may be used instead for footnotes.’

Origin

Mid 16th century via Latin from Greek obeliskos, diminutive of obelos ‘pointed pillar’.

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  • ‘High above a hill in Oakwood Cemetery at Troy, New York, stands a huge obelisk, a monument to the life of Maj.’
  • ‘More than one-quarter of Australia's civic memorials are obelisks or columns - traditional cemetery forms.’
  • ‘The sad truth is that she's barely mentioned in the 3,000 years of effigies and hieroglyphics that cover the towering columns, needle-like obelisks and endless sarcophagi.’
  • ‘Most of its grandeur - all that street furniture of pillars, obelisks and pyramids - is the work of one man: Joze Plecnik, who studied in Prague.’
  • ‘Travelers to Egypt are still impressed with its great pyramids, slender obelisks and avenues of monuments.’
  • ‘Thus, at Treblinka, the memorial to those killed consists of 17,000 granite shards surrounding a large obelisk broken down the middle.’
  • ‘Over the past few years, the English archaeologist David Philipson has uncovered a dense underground network of burial chambers and connecting tunnels below them, proof that the obelisks were funeral monuments.’
  • ‘Porterfield ventures to propose that the obelisk was ‘a monument that advanced the culture and politics of an era, not a regime’.’
  • ‘Work involved the repair and cleaning of headstones, above-ground chambers, obelisks and monuments together with the construction of boundary walls and ornate railings.’
  • ‘The battle site was for many years recorded by a stone obelisk which stood on the bank of the river at Oldbridge but which was blown up in the early years of the 20th century.’
  • ‘All I could see, from a distance, were numerous hands vigorously hurling stones at the aforementioned obelisk.’
  • ‘Jordan arrived at work yesterday to find a stone obelisk in front of the restaurant toppled over.’
  • ‘Tall, stone obelisks and stellae exemplify the building skills of the people.’
  • ‘‘The obelisk is a remarkable landmark, but made even more important because it was one of the first such monuments to be built,’ he said.’
  • ‘I walked from the fort site three miles to the stone obelisk marking the place where Captain Fetterman and his men met their end in 1866.’
  • ‘Living in north Alton as a child, I played in the Confederate cemetery, both tree-shaded and open, green and lovely, with a granite obelisk monument to the dead.’
  • ‘From the orange obelisk monument of Ohakune, to the corrugated iron sheep and dog combo, outlandish structures remind us of the cargo-cult of tourism and a need to be noticed.’
  • ‘For instance, in 1676 the academicians of Aries undertook the reconstruction of a Roman obelisk excavated nearby under the supervision of the academy.’
  • ‘Finally in 1885 it was replaced by an obelisk known as Flinders' Column.’
  • ‘Lengthening shadows cast by giant stone structures, like obelisks or the pillars of Stonehenge, were used by ancient civilizations to measure time.’

  column, pillar, needle, shaft, monolith, monument, memorial

  View synonyms

  1. 1.1A mountain, tree, or other natural object shaped like an obelisk.

• 2

  ‘Scholarly notes are usually signalled by superscript numbers at appropriate points in a text, but such symbols as asterisks and obelisks may be used instead for footnotes.’

Origin

Mid 16th century via Latin from Greek obeliskos, diminutive of obelos ‘pointed pillar’.