Monument

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.
  • n. An inscribed marker placed at a grave; a tombstone.
  • n. 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.
  • n. An outstanding enduring achievement: a translation that is a monument of scholarship.
  • n. An exceptional example: "Thousands of them wrote texts, some of them monuments of dullnessā€ ( Robert L. Heilbroner).
  • n. An object, such as a post or stone, fixed in the ground so as to mark a boundary or position.
  • n. A written document, especially a legal one.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
  • n. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
  • n. An exceptional or proud achievement.
  • n. An important burial vault or tomb.
  • n. A legal document.
  • n. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
  • n. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.
  • n. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
  • n. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Anything by which the memory of a person, a period, or an event is preserved or perpetuated; hence, any conspicuous, permanent, or splendid building, as a medieval cathedral, or any work of art or industry constituting a memorial of the past; a memorial.
  • n. Specifically, a pile, pillar, or other structure erected expressly in memory of events, actions, or persons.
  • n. A stone shaft, or a structure of stone or other enduring material, erected over a grave in memory of the dead.
  • n. 4. A burial-vault; a tomb.
  • n. Any enduring evidence or example; a singular or notable instance.
  • n. In surveying and the law of conveyancing, any object, natural or artificial, fixed in the soil and referred to in a deed or other document as a means of ascertaining the location of a tract of land or any part of its boundaries.
  • n. A treatise.
  • n. Distinctive mark; stamp.
  • n. =Syn. 1-3. Memento, etc. See memorial.
  • To erect a monument in memory of.
  • To place monuments on; adorn with monuments: as, a region monumented with glorious deeds.
  • n. A conspicuous crag of a somewhat pillar-like and symmetrical form.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
  • n. an important site that is marked and preserved as public property
  • n. a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    cenotaph   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cenotaph    tomb    memorial    remembrance   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    statue    tomb    relic    memorial    temple    building    edifice    inscription    shrine    ornament