monument

Meaning

Noun

1. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
2. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3. A sign of exceptional achievement.
4. An important burial vault or tomb.
5. Any grave marker.
6. A legal document.
7. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
8. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
9. A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
10. A surviving record.

Verb

1. To mark or memorialize with a monument.
2. To place a surveyor's monument at.

Concepts

monument

memorial

statue

shrine

tombstone

repository

monumental building

mausoleum

megalith

stonehenge

headstone

token

pyramid

tomb

geodetic monument

mark

bier

markstone

stone marker

boundary stone

boundary tablet

rock

term

gravestone

memento

landmark

sight

historic building

cenotaph

Gilad

Gilead

cairn

tor

tumulus

souvenir

Hyphenated as

mon‧u‧ment

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɑnjʊmənt/

Etymology

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