monument

Forms

1.A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
- There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.
2.An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3.a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
4.A sign of exceptional achievement.
- The line became a monument to his drive and imagination, and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.
- The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.

1.To mark or memorialize with a monument.
2.To place a surveyor's monument at.
- Enter the year the marker was monumented. If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .
- The first-order network is usually monumented on the roofs of buildings; ground stations are used only in suburban districts.
- Having chosen and monumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.

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From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”).

Partially displaced Old English bēacn.