something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
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any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age, and regarded as of historical or archaeological importance.
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any enduring evidence or notable example of something: a monument to human ingenuity.
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an exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality, esp. when considered to be beyond question: a monument of middle-class respectability.
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an area or a site of interest to the public for its historical significance, great natural beauty, etc., preserved and maintained by a government.
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a written tribute to a person, esp. a posthumous one.
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Surveying. an object, as a stone shaft, set in the ground to mark the boundaries of real estate or to mark a survey station.
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a person considered as a heroic figure or of heroic proportions: He became a monument in his lifetime.
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Obsolete. a tomb; sepulcher.
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a statue.
–verb (used with object)
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to build a monument or monuments to; commemorate: to monument the nation's war dead.
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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
A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.
An inscribed marker placed at a grave; a tombstone.
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.
An outstanding enduring achievement: a translation that is a monument of scholarship.
An exceptional example: "Thousands of them wrote texts, some of them monuments of dullness"(Robert L. Heilbroner).
An object, such as a post or stone, fixed in the ground so as to mark a boundary or position.
A written document, especially a legal one.
[Middle English, from Latin monumentum, memorial, from monēre, to remind; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.]
[n. mon-yuh-muh
nt; v. mon-yuh-ment] 