monument

Meanings

1. 1
   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.

2. 2
   noun

   A sign of exceptional achievement.

   The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.

3. 3
   noun

   A surviving record.

   This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first written monument of the French language, eleven hundred years old.

4. 4
   verb

   To place a surveyor's monument at.

   Enter the year the marker was monumented. If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .

5. 5
   noun

   a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

6. 6
   noun

   a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

7. 7
   noun

   an important site that is marked and preserved as public property

8. 8
   noun

   An important site owned by the community as a whole.

Etymology

From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”).