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mon⋅u⋅ment

  [n. mon-yuh-muhnt; v. mon-yuh-ment]
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–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.
9.
a. Obsolete. a tomb; sepulcher.
b. a statue.
–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.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < L monumentum, equiv. to mon- (s. of monēre to remind, warn) + -u- (var. of -i- -i- before labials) + -mentum -ment

Related forms:
mon⋅u⋅ment⋅less, adjective
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mon·u·ment   (mŏn'yə-mənt)   
n.  

  1. A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.

  2. An inscribed marker placed at a grave; a tombstone.

  3. Something venerated for its enduring historic significance or association with a notable past person or thing: the architectural monuments of ancient Rome; traditions that are monuments to an earlier era.

    1. An outstanding enduring achievement: a translation that is a monument of scholarship.

    2. An exceptional example: "Thousands of them wrote texts, some of them monuments of dullness" (Robert L. Heilbroner).

  5. An object, such as a post or stone, fixed in the ground so as to mark a boundary or position.

  6. A written document, especially a legal one.


[Middle English, from Latin monumentum, memorial, from monēre, to remind; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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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