Definition of "monument"

monument

/ˈmɑnjʊmənt/

noun
plural monuments
1. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
2. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3. An exceptional or proud achievement.
  Quotations
  The line became a monument to his drive and imagination - and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.
  1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586
4. An important burial vault or tomb.
5. Any grave marker.
6. A legal document.
7. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
8. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
9. (surveying) A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
10. A surviving record.
  Quotations
  This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first written monument of the French language, eleven hundred years old.
  1896, Auguste Brachet, Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series)‎, Clarendon Press, page 15
  Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovak monument is the Žilina Town Book from the late 15th century
  2018 June 11, Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK])‎, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
verb
third-person singular simple present monuments, present participle monumenting, simple past and past participle monumented
1. (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.

Definition of "monument"

monument

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