Meaning of monument | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any 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.
2. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration
3. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
4. A place in the United States:
5. A town in El Paso County, Colorado.
6. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
7. An important site owned by the community as a whole
8. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Kansas.
9. a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
   British
10. a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection
11. A census-designated place in Lea County, New Mexico.
12. A minor city in Grant County, Oregon.
13. A sign of exceptional achievement.
14. A sign of exceptional achievement
15. A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
16. An important burial vault or tomb.
17. An important burial vault or tomb
18. Any grave marker.
19. A legal document.
20. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
21. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
22. A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
23. A surviving record.
24. Alternative spelling of Monument (“prestigious one-day race”).
    alt-of, alternative

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

“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”

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