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MONUMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A structure erected to commemorate persons or events
Synonyms:
memorial; monument
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("monument" is a kind of...):
construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monument"):
brass; memorial tablet; plaque (a memorial made of brass)
cenotaph; empty tomb (a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered)
gravestone; headstone; tombstone (a stone that is used to mark a grave)
megalith; megalithic structure (memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe))
national monument (memorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest; set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment)
pantheon (a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes)
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; Seven Wonders of the World (impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe)
triumphal arch (a monumental archway; usually they are built to commemorate some notable victory)
Instance hyponyms:
Lincoln Memorial (memorial building in Washington containing a large marble statue of Abraham Lincoln)
Great Pyramid; Pyramid; Pyramids of Egypt (a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt)
Statue of Liberty (a large monumental statue symbolizing liberty on Liberty Island in New York Bay)
Washington Monument (a stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington; 555 feet tall)
Derivation:
monumental (relating or belonging to or serving as a monument)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Synonyms:
monument; repository
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("monument" is a kind of...):
burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)
Derivation:
monumental (relating or belonging to or serving as a monument)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An important site that is marked and preserved as public property
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("monument" is a kind of...):
land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monument"):
market cross (a cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted)
Instance hyponyms:
Stonehenge (an ancient megalithic monument in southern England; probably used for ritual purposes)
Derivation:
monumental (relating or belonging to or serving as a monument)
Context examples:
The day was unmarked therefore by anything to interest her imagination beyond the sight of a very elegant monument to the memory of Mrs. Tilney, which immediately fronted the family pew.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Since that time, new scientific exploration and research has revealed new species and deep sea habitats as well as important ecological connections between the existing monument and the adjacent waters.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
Did any one indeed exist, except I, the creator, who would believe, unless his senses convinced him, in the existence of the living monument of presumption and rash ignorance which I had let loose upon the world?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Of my walking so proudly and lovingly down the aisle with my sweet wife upon my arm, through a mist of half-seen people, pulpits, monuments, pews, fonts, organs, and church windows, in which there flutter faint airs of association with my childish church at home, so long ago.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
These studies allow us to affirm that the construction of megalithic landscapes is probably one of the most long‑lasting and powerful legacies of past societies and that, for millennia, these monuments were the scene for social interaction and the encounter with supernatural powers.
(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)
That the general, having erected such a monument, should be able to face it, was not perhaps very strange, and yet that he could sit so boldly collected within its view, maintain so elevated an air, look so fearlessly around, nay, that he should even enter the church, seemed wonderful to Catherine.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
All commercial resource extraction activities, including commercial fishing and any future mineral extraction, are prohibited in the expansion area, as they are within the boundaries of the existing monument.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
Additionally, within the monument expansion area, there are shipwrecks and downed aircraft from the Battle of Midway in World War II, a battle that marked a major shift in the progress of the war in favor of the Allies.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
