monument

Borrowed from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial”), from monēre (“to remind”)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnjəmənt/

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monument (plural monuments)

A monument (definitions 1 or 2) in Lithuania at the Geographical Center of Europe

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. An exceptional or proud achievement.
4. An important burial vault or tomb.
5. A legal document.
6. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

• cenotaph

• ancient monument
• natural monument

• monumental
• monumentally

monument (third-person singular simple present monuments, present participle monumenting, simple past and past participle monumented)

1. (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.

• monument in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• monument in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Probably borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mo.nuˈment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mu.nuˈmen/

monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

• monumental

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

monument n (singular definite monumentet, plural indefinite monumenter)

1. monument

• mindesmærke

• “monument” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

monument n (plural monumenten, diminutive monumentje n)

1. monument

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

• “monument” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

monument n (definite singular monumentet, indefinite plural monument or monumenter, definite plural monumenta or monumentene)

1. a monument

• monumental

• “monument” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

monument n (definite singular monumentet, indefinite plural monument, definite plural monumenta)

1. a monument

• monumental

• “monument” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French monument, Latin monumentum. Doublet of the inherited mormânt.

monument n (plural monumente)

1. monument
2. memorial

• monumental

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument n

1. monument

• minnesmärke