landmark

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlændmɑːk/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈlændmɑɹk/
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• Canada, General-American: [ˈlɛandmɑɹk] /æ/ raising
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• Australian: /ˈlændmɐːk/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈlɛndmɐːk/
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• CMU ARPABET: L AE1 N D M AA2 R K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English *landmark, from Old English landmearc (“boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *landamarku (“boundary, landmark”). Equivalent to land + mark. Cognate with German Landmarke (“landmark”), Danish landemærke (“landmark”), Swedish landmärke (“landmark”), Norwegian landemerke (“landmark”) and Faroese landamark (“land frontier”). Compare also Middle English londes-mark (“boundary”).

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ուղենիշ (uġeniš) — recognizable feature
• Bulgarian: ориентир (orientir) — recognizable feature
• Catalan: lloc famós — recognizable feature
• Catalan: fita — recognizable feature
• Chinese Mandarin: 地標 /地标 (dìbiāo) — recognizable feature
• Danish: landmærke — recognizable feature
• Dutch: oriëntatiepunt — recognizable feature
• Finnish: maamerkki — recognizable feature
• French: repère — recognizable feature
• French: point de repère — recognizable feature
• French: amer — recognizable feature
• German: Wahrzeichen — recognizable feature
• German: Orientierungspunkt — recognizable feature
• German: Orientierungshilfe — recognizable feature
• Indonesian: markah tanah — recognizable feature
• Indonesian: tengaran — recognizable feature
• Indonesian: petanda — recognizable feature
• Indonesian: mercu tanda — recognizable feature
• Irish: sainchomhartha — recognizable feature
• Italian: punto di riferimento — recognizable feature
• Japanese: 目標 (mejirushi) — recognizable feature
• Japanese: 境界標 (kyōkaihyō) — recognizable feature
• Korean: 경계표 (gyeonggyepyo) — recognizable feature
• Latin: locus famosus — recognizable feature
• Malay: mercu tanda — recognizable feature
• Norwegian Bokmål: landemerke — recognizable feature
• Norwegian Nynorsk: landemerke — recognizable feature
• Polish: punkt orientacyjny — recognizable feature
• Portuguese: marco — recognizable feature
• Romanian: punct de reper — recognizable feature
• Romanian: punct de orientare — recognizable feature
• Russian: ориенти́р (orijentír) — recognizable feature
• Scottish Gaelic: iùl — recognizable feature
• Spanish: hito — recognizable feature
• Spanish: punto referencial — recognizable feature
• Spanish: mojón — recognizable feature
• Spanish: fito (disused) — recognizable feature
• Swedish: landmärke — recognizable feature
• Tagalog: palatandaan — recognizable feature
• Tokelauan: fakailo — recognizable feature
• Ukrainian: орієнти́р (orijentýr) — recognizable feature
• Welsh: tirnod — recognizable feature
• Arabic: مَعْلَم (maʕlam) — notable location
• Armenian: տեսարժան վայր (tesaržan vayr) — notable location
• Bulgarian: забележителност (zabeležitelnost) — notable location
• Chinese Mandarin: 名勝古蹟 /名胜古迹 (míngshènggǔjī) — notable location
• Czech: pozoruhodnost — notable location
• Danish: seværdighed — notable location
• Esperanto: vidindaĵo — notable location
• Finnish: merkkipaikka — notable location
• French: site — notable location
• German: Sehenswürdigkeit — notable location
• Irish: sainchomhartha — notable location
• Italian: monumento — notable location
• Japanese: ランドマーク (randomāku) — notable location
• Japanese: 目標物 (mokuhyōbutsu) — notable location
• Korean: 랜드마크 (raendeumakeu) — notable location
• Korean: 목표물 (mokpyomul) — notable location
• Macedonian: знаменитост (znamenitost) — notable location
• Polish: zabytek — notable location
• Portuguese: marco — notable location
• Portuguese: cartão-postal — notable location
• Russian: достопримеча́тельность (dostoprimečátelʹnostʹ) — notable location
• Slovak: pozoruhodnosť — notable location
• Spanish: monumento — notable location
• Spanish: mojón — notable location
• Spanish: mapa — notable location
• Ukrainian: па́м'ятка (pámʺjatka) — notable location
• Bulgarian: превратна точка (prevratna točka) — major event
• Chinese Mandarin: 里程碑 (lǐchéngbēi) — major event
• Danish: skelsættende — major event
• Finnish: merkkipaalu — major event
• German: Meilenstein — major event
• German: richtungsweisendes Ereignis — major event
• Italian: pietra miliare — major event
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjellsettende — major event
• Polish: punkt zwrotny — major event
• Polish: kamień milowy — major event
• Portuguese: marco — major event
• Russian: ве́ха (véxa) — major event
• Slovak: míľnik — major event
• Slovak: medzník — major event
• Slovak: predel — major event
• Spanish: sobresaliente — major event
• Spanish: monumental — major event
• Spanish: emblemático — major event
• Spanish: hito — major event
• Spanish: mojón — major event
• Ukrainian: ві́ха (víxa) — major event