Devils Tower National Monument. FromMiddle English monument , fromOld French monument , fromLatin monumentum ( “ memorial, monument, tomb ” ) , frommonēre ( “ to remind ” ) .
monument (plural monuments )
A monument (definitions 1 or 2) inLithuania at the Geographical Center ofEurope The Monument to the Great Fire of London, in the City of London A structure built forcommemorative or symbolic reasons, or as amemorial ; acommemoration . An important site owned by thecommunity as a whole. ( British ) a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.A sign ofexceptional achievement .1897 , Richard Marsh,The Beetle :The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a livingmonument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, inTrains Illustrated , page586 :The line became amonument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.
An important burialvault ortomb . Any grave marker. A legal document. A surveyingreference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument). A pile ofstones left by aprospector to claim ownership ofore etc. found in amine . ( surveying ) A natural or artificialobject used as areference point . Asurviving record .1896 , Auguste Brachet, Paget Toynbee,A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series)[2] , Clarendon Press,→LCCN ,→OCLC , page15 :This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first writtenmonument of the French language, eleven hundred years old.
2018 June 11, Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editors,Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science[ HSK] )[3] , Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG,→ISBN ,→OCLC :Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovakmonument is theŽilina Town Book from the late 15th century
( cycling ) Alternative spelling ofMonument ( “ prestigious one-day race ” ) .structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons
Abkhaz:абаҟа ( abaqʼa ) Afrikaans:monument Albanian:përmendore (sq) f ,monument (sq) m Arabic:نُصُب (ar) m ( nuṣub ) ,مَعْلَم تَذْكَارِيّ m ( maʕlam taḏkāriyy ) Armenian:հուշարձան (hy) ( hušarjan ) Azerbaijani:abidə (az) Bashkir:һәйкәл ( həykəl ) Belarusian:по́мнік (be) m ( pómnik ) ,па́мятнік m ( pámjatnik ) ,мануме́нт m ( manumjént ) ,манумэ́нт m ( manumént ) Bengali:স্মৃতিসৌধ (bn) ( smritiśōudh ) Bulgarian:па́метник (bg) m ( pámetnik ) ,монуме́нт (bg) m ( monumént ) Burmese:ပေါ်ထင်စေသောအရာ ( pauhtangcesau:a.ra ) Buryat:хүшөө ( xüšöö ) Catalan:monument (ca) m Chechen:хӏоллам ( hollam ) Chinese:Cantonese:紀念碑 / 纪念碑 ( gei2 nim6 bei1 ) Mandarin:紀念碑 / 纪念碑 (zh) ( jìniànbēi ) Chuvash:палӑк ( palăk ) Czech:památník (cs) m ,monument (cs) m ,pomník (cs) m Danish:monument n ,mindesmærke n Dutch:monument (nl) n Esperanto:monumento (eo) Estonian:mälestussammas ,monument (et) ,mälestusmärk Finnish:monumentti (fi) French:monument (fr) m ,mémorial (fr) Galician:monumento (gl) m Georgian:ძეგლი ( ʒegli ) ,მონუმენტი ( monumenṭi ) German:Denkmal (de) n ,Monument (de) n ,Ehrenmal (de) n Greek:μνημείο (el) n ( mnimeío ) Ancient Greek:μνῆμα n ( mnêma ) Hebrew:מוֹנוֹמֶנְט (he) m ( monumént ) ,אַנדַרטָה (he) f ( andárta, andartá ) ,יָד (he) f ( yad ) Hindi:स्मारक (hi) m ( smārak ) ,यादगार (hi) m ( yādgār ) Hungarian:emlékmű (hu) Icelandic:minnismerki (is) n Indonesian:tugu (id) ,monumen (id) Irish:séadchomhartha m ,leacht (ga) m Italian:monumento (it) m Japanese:記念碑 (ja) ( きねんひ, kinenhi ) ,モニュメント (ja) ( monyumento ) Kashubian:pòmnik m Kazakh:ескерткіш ( eskertkış ) Khmer:វិមាន (km) ( vimiən ) ,អនុស្សាវរីយ៍ ( ʼaʼnuhsaavaʼrii ) Korean:기념비(紀念碑) (ko) ( ginyeombi ) ,모뉴먼트 ( monyumeonteu ) Kyrgyz:эстелик (ky) ( estelik ) Lao:ອານຸສາວະລີ (lo) ( ʼā nu sā wa lī ) Latin:monumentum n Latvian:piemineklis m ,monuments m Lithuanian:paminklas m ,monumentas m Luxembourgish:Monument Macedonian:спо́меник m ( spómenik ) Malay:monumen (ms) Malayalam:സ്മാരകം (ml) ( smārakaṁ ) Mari:Western Mari:ӓштемик ( äštemik ) Mongolian:Cyrillic:хөшөө (mn) ( xöšöö ) Norman:monûment m Norwegian:Bokmål:monument n Nynorsk:monument n Oromo:siidaa Pashto:يادګار m ( yādgā́r ) ,آبده (ps) f ( ābedá ) ,ماذنه ( māzána ) Persian:Iranian Persian:یادْمان ( yâdmân ) ,یادْگاری ( yâdgâri ) ,یادْگار ( yâdgâr ) Plautdietsch:Denkjmol n Polish:pomnik (pl) m ,monument (pl) m Portuguese:monumento (pt) m Punjabi:Gurmukhi:ਸਮਾਰਕ (pa) m ( samārak ) Romanian:monument (ro) Russian:па́мятник (ru) m ( pámjatnik ) ,монуме́нт (ru) m ( monumént ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:спо̏менӣк m ,мону̀мент m Latin:spȍmenīk (sh) m ,monùment (sh) m Silesian:pōmnik m Slovak:pamätník m ,monument m ,pomník m Slovene:spomenik (sl) m Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:pomnik m Upper Sorbian:pomnik m Spanish:monumento (es) m Swedish:monument (sv) n ,minnesmärke (sv) n Tagalog:bantayog (tl) Tajik:ёдгорӣ ( yodgori ) ,ҳайкал (tg) ( haykal ) Tatar:һәйкәл (tt) ( häykäl ) Thai:อนุสาวรีย์ (th) ( à-nú-sǎa-wá-rii ) ,อนุสรณ์สถาน ( à-nú-sɔ̌ɔn-sà-tǎan ) Tibetan:དྲན་གསོའི་རྟེན ( dran gso'i rten ) Turkish:anıt (tr) ,abide (tr) Turkmen:monument ,ýadygärlik Ukrainian:па́м'ятник m ( pámʺjatnyk ) ,монуме́нт m ( monumént ) Urdu:یادْگار (ur) f ( yādgār ) ,یاد گار f ( yād gār ) Uyghur:ئابىدە ( abide ) ,يادىكارلىق ( yadikarliq ) Uzbek:haykal (uz) ,monument (uz) ,yodgorlik (uz) Vietnamese:đài tưởng niệm ,đài kỷ niệm ,tượng đài Vilamovian:pomnik m Welsh:cofadeilad m ,cofadail m or f Yakut:пааматынньык ( paamatïnňïk ) Yiddish:דענקמאָל ( denkmol )
important site owned by the community as a whole
exceptional or prideful achievement
monument (third-person singular simple present monuments ,present participle monumenting ,simple past and past participle monumented )
( transitive ) Tomark ormemorialize with a monument.( transitive ) To place asurveyor 's monument at.1985 ,Input Formats and Specifications of the National Geodetic Survey Data Base , pages3-8 :Enter the year the marker wasmonumented . If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .
2009 , Stephen V. Estopinal,A Guide to Understanding Land Surveys , page91 :Having chosen andmonumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.
2012 , T. J. Blachut, A. Chrzanowski, J. H. Saastamoinen,Urban Surveying and Mapping , page69 :The first-order network is usuallymonumented on the roofs of buildings; ground stations are used only in suburban districts.
“monument ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC . William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “monument ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] , New York, N.Y.:The Century Co. ,→OCLC .Borrowed fromLatin monumentum .
monument m (plural monuments )
monument “monument ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language ] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “monument ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2026 “monument” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“monument” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.Borrowed fromLatin monumentum .
monument n (singular definite monumentet ,plural indefinite monumenter )
monument Borrowed fromLatin monumentum .
monument n (plural monumenten ,diminutive monumentje n )
monument Russalka monument in TallinnFromGerman Monument , ultimately fromLatin monumentum ( “ memorial ” ) (frommonēre ( “ to remind ” ) ).
IPA (key ) : /ˈmonumenʲt/ Hyphenation:mo‧nu‧ment monument (genitive monumendi ,partitive monumenti )
monument Asculpture orbuilding built for thehonour andcommemoration of aperson or anevent . Borrowed fromLatin monumentum .
monument m (plural monuments )
monument Borrowed fromLatin monumentum .
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monument Borrowed fromLatin monumentum .
monument n (definite singular monumentet ,indefinite plural monument or monumenter ,definite plural monumenta or monumentene )
monument Borrowed fromLatin monumentum .
monument n (definite singular monumentet ,indefinite plural monument ,definite plural monumenta )
monument Borrowed fromLatin monumentum . Attested from the 13th century.[ 1]
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monument ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana [1] , L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber,2008-2025 , page390 monument m
monument Learned borrowing fromLatin monumentum .
IPA (key ) : /mɔˈnu.mɛnt/ Rhymes:-umɛnt Syllabification:mo‧nu‧ment monument m inan (diminutive monumencik )
( sculpture ) monument ( structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons ) Synonym: pomnik monument ( exceptional or prideful achievement ) monument inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANmonument in Polish dictionaries at PWNBorrowed fromFrench monument ,Latin monumentum . Doublet of the inheritedmormânt .
monument n (plural monumente )
monument memorial Borrowed fromLatin monumentum .
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