pyramids

¹ Cultural  

1. A group of huge monuments in the Egyptian desert, built as burial vaults for the pharaohs and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramids have square bases and four triangular faces. Pyramid building began in Egypt (see also Egypt) about 2700 b.c. and required vast amounts of slave labor.

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pyramids ² Cultural  

1. A group of huge monuments in the desert of Egypt (see also Egypt), built as burial vaults for ancient Egyptian kings. The age of pyramid building in Egypt began about 2700 b.c. (See under “World History to 1550.”)

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Example Sentences

The art center, its gift shop and gallery reopened in July, a relief for artists needing to use Pyramid’s equipment and customers eager to browse in person.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2020

Our Mini Pyramid's have around 20 #macarons, our largest have around 520!

From Time • Dec. 8, 2015

Pyramid's Senior Analyst Stela Bokun explains that Windows Phone is poised to overtake Android's massive market share much earlier than that -- as soon as 2013, in fact.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2013

It seems, though, that this Wells party had been sort of a partner of Pyramid's back in the early days.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell

At length, exploring darkly round The Pyramid's smooth sides, I found An iron portal—opening high   'Twixt peak and base—and, with a prayer To the bliss-loving Moon whose eye   Alone beheld me sprung in there.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael