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- 4 dictionary resultsmon⋅u⋅ment
[n. mon-yuh-muh
nt; v. mon-yuh-ment]
–noun
| 1. | something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument. |
| 2. | any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age, and regarded as of historical or archaeological importance. |
| 3. | any enduring evidence or notable example of something: a monument to human ingenuity. |
| 4. | an exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality, esp. when considered to be beyond question: a monument of middle-class respectability. |
| 5. | an area or a site of interest to the public for its historical significance, great natural beauty, etc., preserved and maintained by a government. |
| 6. | a written tribute to a person, esp. a posthumous one. |
| 7. | Surveying. an object, as a stone shaft, set in the ground to mark the boundaries of real estate or to mark a survey station. |
| 8. | a person considered as a heroic figure or of heroic proportions: He became a monument in his lifetime. |
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–verb (used with object)
| 10. | to build a monument or monuments to; commemorate: to monument the nation's war dead. |
| 11. | to build a monument on: to monument a famous site. |
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Monument
Mon"u*ment\, n. [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to remind, admonish. See Monition, and cf. Moniment.]1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial. Of ancient British art A pleasing monument. --Philips. Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. --Shak. 2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. --Shak. 3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary. 4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. --Foxe. Syn: Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.
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Language Translation for : monument
Spanish:
monumento,
German:
das Denkmal,
Japanese:
記念碑
monument
c.1280, "a sepulchre," from L. monumentum "a monument, a memorial," lit. "something that reminds," from monere "to remind, warn" (see monitor). Sense of "structure or edifice to commemorate a notable person, action, or event" first attested 1602. Monumental in the loose sense of "vast, stupendous" is first recorded 1658.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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