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Crossword-Solution: OBELISK 7 letters, 56 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Obelisk 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.
Obelisk n. A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See
Dagger, n., 2.
Obelisk v. t. To mark or designate with an obelisk.

We have 56 clues for the answer “OBELISK”

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Pointy monument 1 answer
Four-sided monolithic pillar. 1 answer
Four-sided pillar 1 answer
Giant pillar 1 answer
Giant stele 1 answer
High point of Egyptian architecture? 1 answer
Locale for hieroglyphics, maybe 1 answer
Luxor Temple sight 1 answer
Monolithic monument 1 answer
Monument in Central Park. 1 answer
Object at the center of St. Peter's Square 1 answer
Pillar of a community 1 answer
Pointed monolith 1 answer
Pointed pillar 1 answer
Egyptian structure in St. Peter's Square 1 answer
Pointy pillar 1 answer
San Jacinto Monument, for one 1 answer
Tapering pillar 1 answer
Tapering stone pillar 1 answer
Temple at Luxor sight 1 answer
Temple of Luxor monument 1 answer
The Washington Monument, e.g. 1 answer
The Washington Monument, for one 1 answer
Washington Monument, for one 1 answer
What Cleopatra's Needle is. 1 answer
four sided pillar 1 answer
Tall four-sided tapering pillar 1 answer
Egyptian relic 1 answer
Ancient Egypt monument 1 answer
Bunker Hill Monument, essentially 1 answer
Bunker Hill Monument, for one 1 answer
Central feature of St. Peter's Square 1 answer
Cleopatra's Needle is one. 1 answer
Cleopatra's Needle, e.g. 1 answer
Cleopatra's Needle, for one 1 answer
Cleopatra's Needle. 1 answer
Common monument shape 1 answer
EGYPTIAN monument 2 answers
Washington Monument, e.g. 2 answers
Printer's dagger 2 answers
The Washington Monument, for example 2 answers
ANCIENT astronomical observatory 3 answers
Stone pillar. 4 answers
BENAVENTE, JACINTO 4 answers
Obelus 6 answers
ANCIENT monument 8 answers
Stone monument 8 answers
ALTERNATIVE SPELLING OF STELE 10 answers
Cleopatra needle 10 answers
Cylindrical and tapering. 11 answers
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Sentences with OBELISK (5)

Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Even his cuff-buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk.
My Ántonia Willa Cather 1995
The Thames by evening in June, memories that reached from Tacitus to Wordsworth, the embrasure that extends in front of the Egyptian obelisk for a standing place, and some children "swimming a dog";--that was the scene and circumstance of my first meeting with his father.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems John McCrae 2008
Two hundred grenadiers stood the obelisk of Luxor upon its base in a few hours; do you suppose that one man could have accomplished the same task in two hundred days? Nevertheless, on the books of the capitalist, the amount of wages paid would have been the same.
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon 1995
The way they ship obelisks is to make a hole in the stern of the ship, and run the obelisk in, p'inted end foremost; and this obelisk filled up nearly the whole of that ship from stern to bow.
The Magic Egg and Other Stories Frank Stockton 2008

Quotes with OBELISK (3)

Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgressions, to judge others by different standards from those used to judge ourselves. Enlarged merits? They are described by your fellow-writer Trilussa: The little snail of Vainglory Who had crawled up an obelisk Looked at its slimy trail and said: I see I'll leave my mark on History. This is the way we are, dear Twain; even a bit of slime, if it is our own, and because it is our …
Pope John Paul I Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I
Morning" SUNThat awakens Paris The highest poplar on the bank On The Eiffel Tower A tricolored cock Sings to the flapping of his wingsand several feathers fall As it resumes its course The Seine looks between the bridges For her old route And the Obelisk That has forgotten the Egyptian words Has not blossomed this year SUN
Vicente Huidobro The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology
We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
I.M. Pei
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 51 times in crossword archives (1942–2023).