mon·u·ment

(mŏn′yə-mənt)

1. A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.

2. An inscribed marker placed at a grave; a tombstone.

3. Something venerated for its enduring historic significance or association with a notable past person or thing: the architectural monuments of ancient Rome; traditions that are monuments to an earlier era.

a. An outstanding enduring achievement: a translation that is a monument of scholarship.

b. An exceptional example: "Thousands of them wrote texts, some of them monuments of dullness" (Robert L. Heilbroner).

5. An object, such as a post or stone, fixed in the ground so as to mark a boundary or position.

[Middle English, from Latin monumentum, memorial, from monēre, to remind; see men- in Indo-European roots.]

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monument

(ˈmɒnjʊmənt)

1. (Art Terms) an obelisk, statue, building, etc, erected in commemoration of a person or event or in celebration of something

2. (Architecture) a notable building or site, esp one preserved as public property

3. a tomb or tombstone

4. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a literary or artistic work regarded as commemorative of its creator or a particular period

5. (Art Terms) a literary or artistic work regarded as commemorative of its creator or a particular period

6. US a boundary marker

7. an exceptional example: his lecture was a monument of tedium.

8. (Art Terms) an obsolete word for statue

[C13: from Latin monumentum, from monēre to remind, advise]

Monument

(ˈmɒnjʊmənt)

(Named Buildings) the Monument a tall columnar building designed (1671) by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Fire of London (1666), which destroyed a large part of the medieval city

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mon•u•ment

(ˈmɒn yə mənt)

n.

1. something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue.

2. any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age, and regarded as of historical or archaeological importance.

3. any enduring evidence or notable example of something: a monument to human ingenuity.

4. something written, esp. a legal document or a tribute to a person.

5. national monument.

6. an object, as a stone shaft, to mark a boundary or a survey station.

7. a person considered as being of heroic proportions: a monument in her lifetime.

a. Obs. a tomb; sepulcher.

b. a statue.

[1250–1300; Middle English < Latin monumentum=mon- (s. of monēre to warn) + -u- (variant of -i- -i- before labials) + -mentum -ment]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	monument - a structure erected to commemorate persons or events memorial memorial tablet, plaque, brass - a memorial made of brass cenotaph, empty tomb - a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered gravestone, tombstone, headstone - a stone that is used to mark a grave megalith, megalithic structure - memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) national monument - memorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest; set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment pantheon - a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Seven Wonders of the World - impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe structure, construction - a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" triumphal arch - a monumental archway; usually they are built to commemorate some notable victory
	2.	monument - an important site that is marked and preserved as public property market cross - a cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted land site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
	3.	monument - a burial vault (usually for some famous person) repository burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture - a chamber that is used as a grave

monument

noun

1. memorial, cairn, statue, pillar, marker, shrine, tombstone, mausoleum, commemoration, headstone, gravestone, obelisk, cenotaph He laid a wreath on a monument near Bayeux.

2. testament, record, witness, token, reminder, remembrance, memento By his achievements he leaves a fitting monument to his beliefs. see buildings and other monuments

Quotations
"If you seek a monument, look around (Si monumentum requiris, circumspice)" [son of Sir Christopher Wren Inscription in St. Paul's Cathedral]

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monument

noun

Something, as a structure or custom, serving to honor or keep alive a memory:

commemoration, memorial, remembrance.

Translations

نُصُب تِذْكارينَصْبٌ تِذْكَارِيّ

monument

památník

monument

muistomerkki

spomenik

műemlék

minnisvarîi

monumento

記念碑

기념비

monumentalusmonumentas

monumentspiemineklis

pamätník

spomenik

monument

อนุสาวรีย์

anıt abide

đài kỷ niệm

纪念碑

monument

[ˈmɒnjʊmənt] N → monumento m (to a)

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monument

[ˈmɒnjʊmənt] n

(= building) → monument m

(= memorial) a monument to sb → un monument à la mémoire de qn
a monument to sth → un monument à qch

to be a monument to sth (= concrete expression of) → être un monument de qch

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monument

n → Denkmal nt; (big also) → Monument nt; (small, on grave etc) → Gedenkstein m; (fig) → Zeugnis nt (→ to +gen); his great trilogy survives as a monument to his talent → seine große Trilogie legt Zeugnis von seinem Talent ab

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monument

[ˈmɒnjʊmənt] n → monumento

monument

(ˈmonjumənt) noun

something built in memory of a person or event, eg a building, tomb etc. They erected a monument in his honour.

ˌmonuˈmental (-ˈmen-) adjective

of great size or scale. a monumental achievement.

monument

→ نَصْبٌ تِذْكَارِيّ památník monument Monument μνημείο monumento muistomerkki monument spomenik monumento 記念碑 기념비 monument monument pomnik monumento монумент monument อนุสาวรีย์ anıt đài kỷ niệm 纪念碑

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But, beautiful as it has been preserved in growing old, it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both caused the venerable monument to suffer, without respect for Charlemagne, who laid its first stone, or for Philip Augustus, who laid the last.

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My cicerone perceived the astonishment with which I gazed at this monument of savage crockery, and immediately addressed himself in the task of enlightening me: but all in vain; and to this hour the nature of the monument remains a complete mystery to me.

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Apparently, he did not once reflect upon the valuable details which would have fallen like a windfall to me: fishing the child out--witnessing the surprise of the family and the stir the thing would have made among the peasants--then a Swiss funeral--then the roadside monument, to be paid for by us and have our names mentioned in it.

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Sapsea's monument having had full time to settle and dry, let me take your opinion, as a man of taste, on the inscription I have (as I before remarked, not without some little fever of the brow) drawn out for it.

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The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments "to the unknown dead" -- that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory.

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Well, the people for whom he had done so much, let him walk down these same steps, one day, unattended, old, poor, without a second coat to his back; and when, years afterwards, he died in Sebastopol in poverty and neglect, they called a meeting, subscribed liberally, and immediately erected this tasteful monument to his memory, and named a great street after him.

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He had, in fact, spoken contemptuously of the monumental tradesman as an "exploiter" of labor, and had asked a young working mason, a member of the International Association, to design a monument for the gratification of Jansenius.

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In the center was a square, solid monument of hewn stone.

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"There now!" exclaimed the stranger; "it is our nature to desire a monument, be it slate or marble, or a pillar of granite, or a glorious memory in the universal heart of man."

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Clara was making a rosary of beads for a little figure of a Sister of Charity, who was to attend the Bunker Hill fair and lend her aid in erecting the Monument. Little Alice sat on Grandfather's footstool, with a picture- book in her hand; and, for every picture, the child was telling Grandfather a story.

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'There now!' exclaimed the stranger; 'it is our nature to desire a monument, be it slate or marble, or a pillar of granite, or a glorious memory in the universal heart of man.'

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