WASHINGTON MONUMENT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington; 555 feet tall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

memorial; monument (a structure erected to commemorate persons or events)

obelisk (a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top)

Holonyms ("Washington Monument" is a part of...):

American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C. (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791)

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