Monument
WordNet
noun
(1) A structure erected to commemorate persons or events
(2) A burial vault (usually for some famous person)
(3) An important site that is marked and preserved as public property
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Etymology
From Latin monumentum, “memorial” < Latin monēre, “to remind”
Noun
- 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.
- An important site owned by the community as a whole.
- An exceptionally or prideful achievement.
- An important burial vault or tomb.
- A legal document.
- A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).