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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The monument features lava flows, cinder cones, and sagebrush steppe.
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Emese MacZko, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice, by Jack Fairweather
On a gray wintry day in December 1970, Willy Brandt, the first postwar Social Democratic chancellor of West Germany, fell to his knees at a Warsaw monument to the Jews who had fought there against the Nazis.
—Gary J. Bass, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Students braved biting cold to hold Ukrainian flags, dance, and perform, as city officials laid flowers at a central monument.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2025
The monument is the site of mounds made of earth, built by ancient Native Americans, that form shapes of animals.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Feb. 2025
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Emese MacZko, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice, by Jack Fairweather
On a gray wintry day in December 1970, Willy Brandt, the first postwar Social Democratic chancellor of West Germany, fell to his knees at a Warsaw monument to the Jews who had fought there against the Nazis.
—Gary J. Bass, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Students braved biting cold to hold Ukrainian flags, dance, and perform, as city officials laid flowers at a central monument.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2025
The monument is the site of mounds made of earth, built by ancient Native Americans, that form shapes of animals.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Monument.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monument. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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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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