monument

Substantiv

1. 1

   A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.

   There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.

2. 2

   An important site owned by the community as a whole.

3. 3

   a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.

4. 4

   A sign of exceptional achievement.

   The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.

   The line became a monument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.

5. 5

   An important burial vault or tomb.

6. 6

   Any grave marker.

7. 7

   A legal document.

8. 8

   A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

9. 9

   A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.

10. 10

    A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.

11. 11

    A surviving record.

    This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first written monument of the French language, eleven hundred years old.

    Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovak monument is the Žilina Town Book from the late 15ᵗʰ century

12. 12

    Variante von MonumentAlternative spelling of Monument (“prestigious one-day race”).

Verb

1. 1

   To mark or memorialize with a monument.

2. 2

   To place a surveyor's monument at.

   Enter the year the marker was monumented. If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .

   Having chosen and monumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.

   The first-order network is usually monumented on the roofs of buildings; ground stations are used only in suburban districts.

Formen

Plural

monuments

Präteritum

monumented

Partizip II

monumented

Partizip I

monumenting

3. Person Singular

monuments