monument

[mon·u·ment]

A monument is a statue or other sculpture meant to honor a great person, like the Lincoln Monument or Washington Monument.

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Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.

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a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

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a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

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an important site that is marked and preserved as public property

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Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.

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A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.

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A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

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A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.

Monument

Mon"u*ment , n. [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to remind, admonish. See Monition, and cf. Moniment.] 1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.

Of ancient British art A pleasing monument.

Our bruised arms hung up for monuments.

2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.

On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial.

3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary. 4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.

Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days.

Syn. -- Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.

Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.

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Usage Examples

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

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Other Usage Examples

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.