monument

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  Monument to the First Canadian Missionary
• WordNet 3.6
  • n monument a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
  • n monument a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
  • n monument an important site that is marked and preserved as public property
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She would build a monument that would tower up to the skies

Jamestown exploration trenches of 1955 from the air. Landmarks are the “old cypress” in the river, upper left, the...

From Foxe's 'Actes and Monumentes,' printed by John Day, 1576

The Washington Monument

TEMPLE OF CORINTH, FROM THE MONUMENT OF PHILOPAPPUS

Washington Monument

MONUMENT TO COMMEMORATE THE SKIRMISH AT CONCORD BRIDGE

The Columbus Monument in Granada

• Interesting fact: The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
• • Monument 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."
  • Monument A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. "Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days."
  • Monument A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
  • Monument 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 ."
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• Interesting fact: At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David. He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.
• • n monument Anything by which the memory of a person, a period, or an event is preserved or perpetuated; hence, any conspicuous, permanent, or splendid building, as a medieval cathedral, or any work of art or industry constituting a memorial of the past; a memorial.
  • n monument Specifically, a pile, pillar, or other structure erected expressly in memory of events, actions, or persons.
  • n monument A stone shaft, or a structure of stone or other enduring material, erected over a grave in memory of the dead.
  • n monument A burial-vault; a tomb.
  • n monument Any enduring evidence or example; a singular or notable instance.
  • n monument In surveying and the law of conveyancing, any object, natural or artificial, fixed in the soil and referred to in a deed or other document as a means of ascertaining the location of a tract of land or any part of its boundaries. In this sense the word is applied to such objects as trees, riverbanks, and ditches; and its importance is in the general rule that in case of discrepancy courses or distances mentioned in a description must give way so far as necessary to conform to a monument.
  • n monument A treatise.
  • n monument Distinctive mark; stamp.
  • n monument =Syn. 1-3. Memento, etc. See memorial.
  • monument To erect a monument in memory of.
  • monument To place monuments on; adorn with monuments: as, a region monumented with glorious deeds.
  • n monument A conspicuous crag of a somewhat pillar-like and symmetrical form.
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• Interesting fact: Before the 984 foot high Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was the tallest building in the world at 555 feet.
• • n Monument mon′ū-ment anything that preserves the memory of a person or an event, a building, pillar, tomb, &c.: a record or enduring example of anything: any distinctive mark
  • v.t Monument to raise a monument in memory of
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• George Fabricius

  

  “Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
• Ernest Hemingway

  

  “Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”
• Cato The Elder

  

  “After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
• R. Buckminster Fuller

  

  “Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.”
• Samuel Goldwyn

  

  “I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.”
• Agesilaus II

  

  “If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.”

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