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monument

[ noun mon-yuh-muhnt; verb 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, especially 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, especially 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.

    1. Obsolete. a tomb; sepulcher.
    2. a statue.


verb (used with object)

  1. to build a monument or monuments to; commemorate:

    to monument the nation's war dead.

  2. to build a monument on:

    to monument a famous site.

Monument

1

/ ˈmɒnjʊmənt /

noun

  1. the Monument
    a tall columnar building designed (1671) by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Fire of London (1666), which destroyed a large part of the medieval city
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


monument

2

/ ˈmɒnjʊmənt /

noun

  1. an obelisk, statue, building, etc, erected in commemoration of a person or event or in celebration of something
  2. a notable building or site, esp one preserved as public property
  3. a tomb or tombstone
  4. a literary or artistic work regarded as commemorative of its creator or a particular period
  5. a boundary marker
  6. an exceptional example

    his lecture was a monument of tedium

  7. an obsolete word for statue
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • monu·ment·less adjective
  • un·monu·mented adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of monument1

1250–1300; Middle English < Latin monumentum, equivalent to mon- (stem of monēre to remind, warn) + -u- (variant of -i- -i- before labials) + -mentum -ment
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Word History and Origins

Origin of monument1

C13: from Latin monumentum, from monēre to remind, advise
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Example Sentences

Scientists have been trying to figure out how ancient people developed their tools and built their cities and monuments.

Like so many of our museums and monuments, it’s always some place you’ve been meaning to go.

Hearing sounds of some kind circulating inside the ancient monument “must have been one of the fundamental experiences of Stonehenge.”

Ginzel said that traditional monuments, such as the Columbus statues, can be problematic because they represent power from a specific point of view.

People living back then often created monuments to frame views of natural features, she says.

The man whom Time dubbed a “Black Leonardo,” became the first African-American to have a national monument dedicated to him.

But, in my mind—and many of the townspeople—the monument was far from the main attraction.

On one occasion, a drone operator flew a drone over a crowd at Mount Rushmore, then out over the monument itself.

At its center was a monument, perhaps just over six feet high.

The entire city can seem like a singular monument to his decades in office.

After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.

In a statuesque attitude, she sat, like Marius on the ruins of Carthage, or Patience on a monument smiling at grief.

His grand work, the Animal Kingdom, forms an imperishable monument of his genius.

It is undoubtedly Cavaill-Coll's finest work, and a lasting monument to his genius.

The column was suggested in 1862 as a suitable monument to the memory of the late Prince Albert.

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