Definitions for monument

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monument mon·u·ment

Spelling: [noun mon-yuh-muh nt; verb

IPA: /noun ˈmɒn yə mənt; verb ˈmɒn yəˌmɛnt/

Monument is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in monument (emmnnotu).

Definitions for monument

noun

1. something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue:
2. any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age, and regarded as of historical or archaeological importance.
3. any enduring evidence or notable example of something:
4. an exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality, especially when considered to be beyond question:
5. an area or a site of interest to the public for its historical significance, great natural beauty, etc., preserved and maintained by a government.
6. a written tribute to a person, especially a posthumous one.
7. Surveying. an object, as a stone shaft, set in the ground to mark the boundaries of real estate or to mark a survey station.
8. a person considered as a heroic figure or of heroic proportions:
9. Obsolete. a tomb; sepulcher. a statue.

verb (used with object)

1. to build a monument or monuments to; commemorate:
2. to build a monument on:

Origin of monument

1250-1300; Middle English Latin monumentum, equivalent to mon- (stem of monēre to remind, warn) + -u- (variant of -i- -i- before labials) + -mentum

Examples for monument

Congress resolved that a monument should be erected to him at Annapolis.

At its center was a monument, perhaps just over six feet high.

And what monument would you have reared to mark the spot where Anaxagoras sleeps?

But, in my mind—and many of the townspeople—the monument was far from the main attraction.

To the major it was thenceforth chamber and chapel and monument.

And “monument” is a perfect example of that, because we were just playing around with our time-stretch program.

No use being angry because the monument was crawling with Tommies!

It is contemplated to erect a monument, by subscription, to Mr. Fessenden's memory.

On one occasion, a drone operator flew a drone over a crowd at Mount Rushmore, then out over the monument itself.

Or an EP...  Torbjørn: [Laughs] I have to say that the track “monument” is doing quite a lot in that respect.