landmark

land·mark  (lndmärk)

n.

1. A prominent identifying feature of a landscape.

2. A fixed marker, such as a concrete block, that indicates a boundary line.

3. An event marking an important stage of development or a turning point in history.

4. A building or site with historical significance, especially one marked for preservation by a municipal or national government.

adj.

Having great import or significance: a landmark court ruling.

tr.v. land·marked, land·mark·ing, land·marks

To accord the status of a landmark to; declare to be a landmark.

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landmark

Noun

1. a prominent object in or feature of a particular landscape

2. an important or unique event or development: a landmark in scientific progress

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	landmark - the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark" position, place - the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"
	2.	landmark - an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend; "the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations" turning point, watershed juncture, occasion - an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions" Fall of Man - (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death road to Damascus - a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)
	3.	landmark - a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land point of reference, reference point, reference - an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" mearstone, meerestone, merestone - an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab
	4.	landmark - an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" craniometric point - a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken surgery - the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"

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landmark

noun 1. feature, spectacle, monument

noun 2. milestone, turning point, watershed, critical point, tipping point

noun 3. boundary marker, cairn, benchmark, signpost, milepost

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A feature, either natural or artificial, that can be accurately determined on the ground from a grid reference.

Translations

landmark [ˈlændmɑːk] n → lugar m conocido;

to be a landmark (fig) → hacer época

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landmark [ˈlændmɑːk] land n → (point m de) repère m;

to be a landmark (fig) → faire date or époque

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landmark [ˈlændmɑːk] land n → Orientierungspunkt m;

(famous building) → Wahrzeichen nt (fig); Meilenstein m

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landmark [ˈlændmɑːk] n → punto di riferimento;

(fig) → pietra miliare