monumentmon‧u‧ment /ˈmɒnjəmənt $ ˈmɑː-/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
He erected a monument on the spot where his daughter was killed.monument to a fitting monument to the men who died in the battle2a very old building or place that is important historically: Ancient monuments are protected by law.3 be a monument to somebody/something to show clearly the result of someone’s qualities, beliefs, or actions: The company is a monument to Sir Peter’s energy and vision. → national monument
WORD ORIGINmonument
Origin:
1200-1300 Latin monumentum, from monere ‘to remind’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Ellis Island is preserved as a historic monument.
- A landowner could have his monument protected if he wished but he might prefer to maltreat it or destroy it completely.
- Arnold Kaech, chairman of the Schilthornbahn, decided to replace the monument.
- At daybreak or dusk, the pyramids most resemble the limestone monuments seen by the old explorers.
- Memorial monuments usually celebrate triumphs rather than the state's decimation of cultures and peoples.
- Still, this cement and glass monument to eavesdropping will likely remain off the tourist maps for many years to come.
- The development of polio vaccines, present and future, is a monument to several important things.
- These are the monuments to generations of individual farmers ploughing and draining their fields.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Ancient monuments are protected by law.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1a building, statue, or other large structure that is built to remind people of an important event or famous person: Ancient monuments are protected by law.· With such ancient remains, the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments.· Approximately 100,000 cars clog the narrow streets each day and exhaust gases are eroding the city's ancient monuments.· Not only have UFOs nothing to do with ley lines, they have nothing to do with ancient monuments or geology.· The camera monitoring began last September in an attempt to safeguard the ancient monument.· In practice, however, its main result is the production of large numbers of ancient artefacts and monuments.· It is far more important than any particular beetle or bird or ancient monument.· There are many castles, churches, abbeys and ancient monuments and public gardens to visit.
· The square funerary monument was found to contain a series of stelae with inscriptions and five urns.
· Elsewhere, the condition of many of the great monuments ranges from shabby to ruinous.· The perception of my father is of this great monument of a man.· The world's greatest monument to the exploitation of women had its appeal, I had to admit.· One great monument towards which most bishops did contribute was the cathedral.
· In use as a hospital until 1965, in 1977 it was declared an historic monument and saved from demolition.· Judges were blown up, policemen shot, historic monuments targeted.· Free offer Visits to Ulster's historic monuments will be free next weekend.· It was classified an historic monument the following year.· Baku town center is filled with stalls, cafes, historic monuments.· The countryside of Yorkshire is a wonderful landscape of dales and moors, with many historic monuments.· In the 100-mile city, airports, shopping centres, cultural complexes and historic monuments all have equivalent status.· The keep's remains will be preserved as a historic monument.
· The world has a far more effective system of protection for important monuments and sites than it used to have.· They are important monuments to Britain's pioneering industrial past.
· The national monument is called the Great Stupa, which sums up the mood.· The fort, the ninth on this site, is now a national monument.· It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument.· Already a lawsuit has begun to challenge the designation of more than six new national monuments.· They had to revise everything on worldwide currencies, capitals, flags, rivers, national monuments etc.· The de Courmont house is a national monument.· Not her national monument I told her, and she shouldn't come poking her nose in where it wasn't wanted.
· New hotels, new fly-overs, new housing, new monuments to the Fallen Martyrs.· Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.· The new monument is more robust than the original and also far larger.· Already a lawsuit has begun to challenge the designation of more than six new national monuments.
· With such ancient remains, the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments.· So far it appears that other monuments in care have not been affected, although Mousa Broch has yet to be visited.· They have been particularly studied in the decay of old stone mansions, castles and other human monuments.
· In Chapter 2 we concentrate on the changing nature of the public monument.· Like the arch, it is that rare kind of public monument that draws gasps.· Oldenberg's monument also breaks the rigid anti-chromatic format of most western public sculptures and monuments.· We have seen that most public monuments have the-overt or covert-theme of violence.· Finally, competitions were organized for major public monuments and decorations.
NOUN· Like woodland, such areas have their own archaeology - and their own characteristic field monuments.
VERB· It was built as a monument to Thomas Coats, the man who had established the family's cotton thread empire.· Glastonbury Tor and Avebury Where later societies put great resources into fortification the Neolithic people built monuments.· What, one might ask, about bequests in favour of corporations or instructions to build the testator a monument?· He wanted to build cities: monuments to what he already knew.· Antislavery history thus entailed building a monument to the sect.
· William Arbuthnot erected a monument on the spot.· The miners erected a monument that still stands.· Each species of coral has its own pattern of budding and so erects its own characteristic monument.
He erected a monument on the spot where his daughter was killed.monument to a fitting monument to the men who died in the battle2a very old building or place that is important historically: Ancient monuments are protected by law.3 be a monument to somebody/something to show clearly the result of someone’s qualities, beliefs, or actions: The company is a monument to Sir Peter’s energy and vision. → national monument