monument

plural monuments

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. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3. UKa registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
4. A sign of exceptional achievement.

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

   1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586

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   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.

   1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle

5. An important burial vault or tomb.
6. Any grave marker.
7. A legal document.
8. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
9. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
10. geographyA natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
11. A surviving record.

    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

    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]), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, →OCLC

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    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.

    1896, Auguste Brachet, Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15

12. alternativecyclingAlternative spelling of Monument (“prestigious one-day race”).

present singular third person monuments · participle present monumenting · participle past monumented · past monumented

1. transitiveTo mark or memorialize with a monument.
2. transitiveTo place a surveyor's monument at.

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

   1985, Input Formats and Specifications of the National Geodetic Survey Data Base, pages 3-8

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

   2009, Stephen V. Estopinal, A Guide to Understanding Land Surveys, page 91

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

   2012, T. J. Blachut, A. Chrzanowski, J. H. Saastamoinen, Urban Surveying and Mapping, page 69

1. A place in the United States:
   1. A town in El Paso County, Colorado.
   2. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Kansas.
   3. A census-designated place in Lea County, New Mexico.
   4. A minor city in Grant County, Oregon.
   5. A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

plural Monuments

1. cyclingAny of the five most prestigious men's one-day road cycling races: Milan–San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, Liege–Bastogne–Liege and Giro di Lombardia.