monument
noun
mon·u·ment
ˈmän-yə-mənt 
1
obsolete
: a burial vault : sepulchre
2
: a written legal document or record : treatise
3
a(1)
: a lasting evidence, reminder, or example of someone or something notable or great
(2)
: a distinguished person
b
: a memorial stone or a building erected in remembrance of a person or event
5
obsolete
: a carved statue : effigy
6
: a boundary or position marker (such as a stone)
8
: a written tribute
Examples of monument in a Sentence
They have erected a monument in his honor.
the Quakers disapproved of monuments, regarding them as idolatrous, so thousands of Nantucketers spend their eternal rest in complete anonymity
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Two weeks ago in Washington, D.C., a mysterious poop monument appeared by the U.S. Capitol.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
White boys climb the town square’s Confederate monument.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
The Endurance is now protected under the Antarctic Treaty as a historic subsea monument, and will stay on its seabed home instead of being raised to the earth.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
While Mesopotamia was sprouting city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and building massive monuments like the Ziggurat of Ur (in what is now Iraq), development in Arabia appears to have been smaller, slower, and more modest, according to a report in PLOS ONE.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
White boys climb the town square’s Confederate monument.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
The Endurance is now protected under the Antarctic Treaty as a historic subsea monument, and will stay on its seabed home instead of being raised to the earth.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
While Mesopotamia was sprouting city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and building massive monuments like the Ziggurat of Ur (in what is now Iraq), development in Arabia appears to have been smaller, slower, and more modest, according to a report in PLOS ONE.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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monument
noun
mon·u·ment
ˈmän-yə-mənt
1
: something that serves as a memorial
especially
: a building, pillar, stone, or statue honoring a person or event
2
: a work, saying, or deed that lasts or that is worth preserving
the book is a monument of scholarship
3
: a boundary marker (as a stone)
4
: a place of historic interest or natural beauty set aside and maintained by the government as public property
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