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landmark
[ land-mahrk ]
noun
- a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location:
The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- something used to mark the boundary of land.
- a building or other place that is of outstanding historical, aesthetic, or cultural importance, often declared as such and given a special status landmark designation, ordaining its preservation, by some authorizing organization.
- a significant or historic event, juncture, achievement, etc.:
The court decision stands as a landmark in constitutional law.
verb (used with object)
- to declare (a building, site, etc.) a landmark:
a movement to landmark New York's older theaters.
landmark
/ ˈlændˌmɑːk /
noun
- a prominent or well-known object in or feature of a particular landscape
- an important or unique decision, event, fact, discovery, etc
- a boundary marker or signpost
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- un·landmarked adjective
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Example Sentences
The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
Thursday evening will prove to be a landmark night in TV history.
He was impressed by her landmark 2011 Human Rights Day speech linking fighting for gay rights to American foreign policy.
Of course, as Landmark notes, the procedure is not without risk.
Moreover, under Eric Holder the Justice Department has vigorously enforced the landmark Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.
But one would linger long on the way if hePg 83 paused at every landmark on the Southampton road.
And immediately the word bounty implanted itself in his mind as the first landmark of a marvelous story.
The thrilling of the frogs grew louder, and shortly she was at the old lightning oak that served her for a landmark.
It was obviously an industry-founder, a landmark invention on a par with the greatest, even in its incomplete condition.
Any way I looked I could see no break, no landmark, no trend of the land which could offer any sort of guidance.
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