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


  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. An exceptionally or prideful achievement.
  4. An important burial vault or tomb.
  5. A legal document.
  6. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
 
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