6 definitions found
monument - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Monument \Mon"u*ment\, n. [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to
remind, admonish. See Monition, and cf. Moniment.]
1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance
what is past; a memorial.
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Of ancient British art
A pleasing monument. --Philips.
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Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. --Shak.
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2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to
preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.;
as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument.
Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.
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On your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial. --Shak.
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3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a
limit or to mark a boundary.
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4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
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Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous
days. --Foxe.
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Syn: Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.
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monument - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
monument
n 1: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events [syn:
memorial, monument]
2: an important site that is marked and preserved as public
property
3: a burial vault (usually for some famous person) [syn:
repository, monument]
monument - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Monument, CO (town, FIPS 51800)
Location: 39.07013 N, 104.85712 W
Population (1990): 1020 (460 housing units)
Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 80132
Monument, KS
Zip code(s): 67747
Monument, NM
Zip code(s): 88265
Monument, OR (city, FIPS 49750)
Location: 44.81998 N, 119.41880 W
Population (1990): 162 (78 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97864
monument - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :
MONUMENT. A thing intended to transmit to posterity the memory of some one;
it is used, also, to signify a tomb where a dead body has been deposited. In
this sense it differs from a cenotaph, which is at empty tomb. Dig. 11, 7,
2, 6; Id. 11, 7, 2, 42.
MONUMENTS. Permanent landmarks established for the purpose of ascertaining
boundaries.
2. Monuments may be either natural or artificial objects, as rivers,
known streams, springs, or marked trees. 7 Wheat. R. 10; 6 Wheat. R. 582; 9
Cranch, 173; 6 Pet. 498; Pet. C. C. R. 64; 3 Ham. 284; 5 Ham. 534; 5 N. H.
Rep. 524; 3 Dev. 75. Even posts set up at the corners, 5 Ham. 534, and a
clearing, 7 Cowen, 723, are considered as monuments. Sed vide 3 Dev. 75.
3. When monuments are established, they must govern, although neither
courses, nor distances, nor 'computed' contents correspond; 5 Cowen, 346; 1
Cowen, 605; 6 Cowen, 706; 7 Cowen, 723; 6 Mass. 131; 2 Mass. 380; 3 Pick.
401; 5 Pick. 135; 3 Gill & John. 142,; 5 Har. & John. 163, 255; 2 Id. 260;
Wright, 176; 5 Ham. 534; 1 H. & McH. 355; 2 H. & McH. 416; Cooke, 146; 1
Call, 429; 3 Call, 239; 3 Fairf. 325; 4 H. & M. 125; 1 Hayw. 22; 5 J. J.
Marsh. 578; 3 Hawks, 91; 3 Murph. 88; 4 Monr. 32; 5 Monr. 175; 2 Overt. 200;
2 Bibb, 493; S. C. 6 Wheat. 582; 4 W. C. C. Rep. 15. Vide Boundary.
monument - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "monument":
antenna tower, arch, archives, barbican, barrow, belfry,
bell tower, bench mark, bookmark, boundary stone, brass, bust,
cairn, campanile, carving, catstone, cenotaph, colossus, column,
commemorate, commemoration, cromlech, cross, cup, cupola,
cyclolith, derrick, doll, dolly, dolmen, dome, dummy, evidence,
example, exemplar, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine,
fire tower, footstone, gingerbread man, grave, gravestone,
headstone, hoarstone, inscription, landmark, lantern, lay figure,
ledger, lighthouse, lightship, man of straw, manikin, mannequin,
marionette, mark, marker, martello, martello tower, mast,
mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch,
memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, milepost,
milestone, minaret, model, monolith, monumentalize, mound,
necrology, obelisk, obituary, observation tower, pagoda, pharos,
pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, plaque, platform, pole, portrait bust,
prize, puppet, pylon, pyramid, record, reliquary, remembrance,
ribbon, rostral column, scarecrow, sculpture, seamark, shaft,
shrine, skyscraper, snowman, spire, standpipe, statuary, statue,
statuette, steeple, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, television mast,
testament, testimonial, testimony, token, tomb, tombstone, tope,
tour, tower, tribute, trophy, turret, watchtower, water tower,
wax figure, waxwork, windmill tower, witness, wood carving
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