monument
Syllables: mon·u·mentUK/ˈmɒnjʊmənt//ˈmɑnjʊmənt/
monument noun: a structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration. Also the alternative spelling of Monument.
Noun (1)
monument (plural monuments)
- 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.
- An important site owned by the community as a whole.
- a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
- 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.1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
- The line became a monument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586
- An important burial vault or tomb.
- Any grave marker.
- A legal document.
- A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
- A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
- A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
- 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.1896, Auguste Brachet, Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15
- Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovak monument is the Žilina Town Book from the late 15ᵗʰ century2018 June 11, Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks...
Verb
monument (third-person singular simple present monuments, present participle monumenting, simple past and past participle monumented)
- To mark or memorialize with a monument.
- To place a surveyor's monument at.
- Enter the year the marker was monumented. If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .1985, Input Formats and Specifications of the National Geodetic Survey Data Base, pages 3-8
- Having chosen and monumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.2009, Stephen V. Estopinal, A Guide to Understanding Land Surveys, page 91
Proper noun capitalized: Monument
Monument
- A town in El Paso County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Logan County, Kansas.
- A census-designated place in Lea County, New Mexico.
- A minor city in Grant County, Oregon.
- A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
Noun (2) capitalized: Monument
Monument (plural Monuments)
- Any of the five most prestigious men's one-day road cycling races: Milan–San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, Liege–Bastogne–Liege and Giro di Lombardia.
Also used as
monument is also the alternative spelling of Monument.
monument meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
monument in Hindi
- structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons
- स्मारक smārak, यादगार yādgār
monument in Tamil
- நினைவுச்சின்னம்
monument in Urdu
- structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons
- یادْگار yādgār, یاد گار yād gār
monument in Bengali
- structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons
- স্মৃতিসৌধ smritiśōudh
More languagesFewer languages
- monument in Telugu
- స్మారక చిహ్నం, స్మారక చిహ్నము
- monument in Malayalam
- സ്മാരകം smārakaṁ
- monument in Punjabi
- ਸਮਾਰਕ samārak
- monument in Gujarati
- સ્મારક
- monument in Pashto
- يادګار yādgā́r, آبده ābedá, ماذنه māzána
- monument in Tagalog
- bantayog
- monument in Arabic
- نُصُب nuṣub, مَعْلَم تَذْكَارِيّ maʕlam taḏkāriyy
- monument in Malay
- monumen
- monument in Indonesian
- tugu, monumen
- monument in Thai
- อนุสาวรีย์ à-nú-sǎa-wá-rii, อนุสรณ์สถาน à-nú-sɔ̌ɔn-sà-tǎan
- monument in Vietnamese
- đài tưởng niệm, đài kỷ niệm, tượng đài
- monument in Myanmar
- ပေါ်ထင်စေသောအရာ pauhtangcesau:a.ra
Examples of monument in a sentence
- This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
- This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.
- Meet me on the north side of the monument.
Forms of monument
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | monuments |
| plural | Monuments |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | monuments |
| present participle | monumenting |
| past participle | monumented |
| past | monumented |
Origin of monument
From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”). Partially displaced Old English bēacn.
Words formed from monument
Phrases with monument
Questions about monument
- What does monument mean?
- Monument means a structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
- What is monument in Hindi?
- Monument in Hindi is स्मारक (smārak), यादगार (yādgār). See Monument meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is monument?
- Monument can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce monument?
- Monument is pronounced /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/ (US).
- What is the plural of monument?
- The plural of monument is monuments.
Words near monument in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: monument (page history and authors); Monument (page history and authors); monument (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); monument (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); monument (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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