monument
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Synonyms: moniment, movement, moment, document, muniment, nocument, emolument, mandment, monuments, onement, monumento
Antonyms: moniment, movement, moment, document, muniment, nocument, emolument, mandment, monuments, onement, monumento
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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.
- {{lb|en|British}} a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
- A sign of [[exceptional]] [[achievement]].
- An important burial [[vault]] or [[tomb]].
- Any grave marker.<!--This sense is hyperbolic but nonetheless well established and widespread; its hyperbole is driven by formal politeness, in the same way that one of the widespread senses of "gentleman" refers to any man.-->
- A legal document.
- A surveying [[reference point]] marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
- A pile of [[stone]]s left by a [[prospector]] to claim ownership of [[ore]] etc. found in a [[mine]].
- {{lb|en|surveying}} A natural or artificial [[object]] used as a [[reference point]].
- {{senseid|en|record}} A [[survive|surviving]] [[record#Noun|record]].
- {{lb|en|cycling}} {{alternative spelling of|en|Monument|t=prestigious one-day race}}.
Verb
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[mark]] or [[memorialize]] with a monument.
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To place a [[surveyor]]'s monument at.
Proper noun
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