monument

From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial”), from monēre (“to remind”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/, /ˈmɑnjəmənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnjʊmənt/

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• Hyphenation: mon‧u‧ment

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. A sign of exceptional achievement.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     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.

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

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

4. An important burial vault or tomb.
5. Any grave marker.
6. A legal document.
7. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
8. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
9. (surveying) A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
10. A surviving record.
    • 1896, Auguste Brachet, Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series)‎, Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

      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.

    • 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:

      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 15^th century

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.
2. (transitive) To place a surveyor's monument at.
   • 1985, Input Formats and Specifications of the National Geodetic Survey Data Base, pages 3-8:

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

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

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

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

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

• “monument”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “monument”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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

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monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

• monumental

• “monument” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “monument”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “monument” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “monument” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): [monuˈmɛ̝ˀnd̥]

monument n (singular definite monumentet, plural indefinite monumenter)

1. monument

• mindesmærke

• “monument” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “monument” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoːnyˈmɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

monument n (plural monumenten, diminutive monumentje n)

1. monument

• → Indonesian: monumen
• → Papiamentu: monument (dated)

From German Monument, ultimately from Latin monumentum (“memorial”) (from monēre (“to remind”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonumenʲt/
• Hyphenation: mo‧nu‧ment

monument (genitive monumendi, partitive monumenti)

1. monument
   1. A sculpture or building built for the honour and commemoration of a person or an event.

• mälestusmärk
• mälestussammas
• mälestuskivi
• ausammas
• sammas
• mälestis
• memoriaal

• monumentaalne

• monument in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ny.mɑ̃/

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monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

• “monument”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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. monument

• monumental

• “monument” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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

1. monument

• monumental

• “monument” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum. Attested from the 13th century.[1]

• IPA^(key): /munyˈmen/

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monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

• monumental

• IPA^(key): /munyˈmɛŋt/

monument m

1. monument

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈnu.mɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -umɛnt
• Syllabification: mo‧nu‧ment

monument m inan (diminutive monumencik)

1. (sculpture) monument (structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons)

   Synonym: pomnik

2. monument (exceptional or prideful achievement)

• monument in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• monument in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

• IPA^(key): /mo.nuˈment/

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monument n (plural monumente)

1. monument
2. memorial

• monumental

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): /moːnɵˈmɛnt/

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monument n

1. monument

• minnesmärke