obelisk
- n a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top
- n a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
- Upon arrival, he was awestruck by the monolith that rose from my living-room floor like the obelisk in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- At the end of the row, under an obelisk, lies George Armstrong Custer.
- And now the colossus of Ptolemy II, along with other underwater finds including a bust of a Ptolemaic queen represented as Isis and an obelisk from the time of Seti I, King of .