monument

noun

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. (British)a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
4. A sign of exceptional achievement.

   “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.”

   “The line became a monument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.”

5. An important burial vault or tomb.
6. Any grave marker.
7. A legal document.
8. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
9. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
10. A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
11. A surviving record.

    “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.”

    “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”

12. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Monument (“prestigious one-day race”).
13. 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.

verb

1. (transitive)To mark or memorialize with a monument.
2. (transitive)To place a surveyor's monument at.

   “Enter the year the marker was monumented. If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .”

   “Having chosen and monumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.”

   “The first-order network is usually monumented on the roofs of buildings; ground stations are used only in suburban districts.”

name

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