monument
IPA: mˈɑnjumʌnt
noun
- A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
- An important site owned by the community as a whole.
- A sign of exceptional achievement.
- An important burial vault or tomb.
- Any grave marker.
- A legal document.
- A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
- A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
- (surveying) A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
- A surviving record.
verb
- (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.
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