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noun

Monument n.

Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial. "Of ancient British art A pleasing monument." "Our bruised arms hung up for monuments."

A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. "On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial."

A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. "Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days."

Synonyms: Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.

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Etymology of 'Monument'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monument" Quotes from Famous Books

... Comedy" owe their lordly mottoes and ingenious armorial bearings. Indeed, "the Armorial of the Etudes, devised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman," is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which nothing is forgotten, not even the arms of the Empire, and I shall preserve it as a monument of friendship and of Benedictine patience. What profound knowledge of the old feudal spirit is to be seen in the motto of the Beauseants, Pulchre sedens, melius agens; in that of the Espards, Des partem leonis; in that of the Vandenesses, Ne se vend. ...

— The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac

... a most splendid monument to her departed lord over the family vault of the Bluebeards. The rector, Dr. Sly, who had been Mr. Bluebeard's tutor at college, wrote an epitaph in the most pompous yet pathetic Latin: "Siste, viator! moerens conjux, ...

— Stories of Comedy • Various

... hold Upon the reverend and steadfast earth That gave thee birth. Yea, standest smiling in thy very grave, Serene and brave, With unremitting breath Inhaling life from death, Thine epitaph writ fair in fruitage eloquent, Thy living self thy monument. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 86, February, 1875 • Various

... of a high bluff, covered with wood, contiguous to the college, I observed a monument or obelisk, which I ascertained to have been erected to the memory of Kosciusko, a Polish patriot, who took a prominent part in the annihilation of British rule in America. It had a very picturesque effect, and was regarded with ...

— An Englishman's Travels in America - His Observations Of Life And Manners In The Free And Slave States • John Benwell

... productions in my pans takes them for an outcome of my industry, contrived with a view to some experimental mischief; and his surprise is great when I confess who the real author is. No one would ever believe the Spider capable of constructing such a monument. ...

— The Life of the Spider • J. Henri Fabre

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