monument

Meanings

Noun

• A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
• An important site owned by the community as a whole.
• An exceptional or proud achievement.
• An important burial vault or tomb.
• A legal document.
• A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
• A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.

Verb

• To mark or memorialize with a monument.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• cenotaph

Origin

• From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum ("memorial"), from monēre