Monument: Definition and part of speech

Monument

  1. n. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
  2. n. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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