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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
A place in the United States:
A town in El Paso County, Colorado.
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A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, Kansas.
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name
A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Lea County, New Mexico.
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name
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Grant County, Oregon.
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A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
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noun
A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
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An important site owned by the community as a whole.
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noun
a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
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Usage: UK
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noun
A sign of exceptional achievement.
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noun
An important burial vault or tomb.
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noun
Any grave marker.
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noun
A legal document.
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noun
A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
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noun
A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
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noun
A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
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Topics: geography, natural-sciences, surveying
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noun
A surviving record.
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noun
Alternative spelling of Monument (“prestigious one-day race”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: cycling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Any of the five most prestigious men's one-day road cycling races: Milan–San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, Liege–Bastogne–Liege and Giro di Lombardia.
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Topics: cycling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To mark or memorialize with a monument.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To place a surveyor's monument at.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
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Synonyms: memorial
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Broader terms: structure, construction
Narrower terms: brass, memorial tablet, plaque, cenotaph, empty tomb, gravestone, headstone, tombstone, megalith, megalithic structure, national monument, pantheon, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Seven Wonders of the World, triumphal arch, Lincoln Memorial, Pyramid, Great Pyramid, Pyramids of Egypt, Statue of Liberty, Washington Monument
noun
a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
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Synonyms: repository
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Broader terms: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
noun
an important site that is marked and preserved as public property
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Broader terms: site, land site
Narrower terms: market cross, Stonehenge
History
From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”). Partially displaced Old English bēacn.
Across languages
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