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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monument \Mon"u*ment\, n. [F., fr L. monumentum fr monere to
remind, admonish. See {Monition}, and cf {Moniment}.]
1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance
what is past; a memorial.
Of ancient British art A pleasing monument.
--Philips.
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. --Shak.
2. 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. --Shak.
3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a
limit or to mark a boundary.
4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous
days. --Foxe.
Syn: Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
monument
n 1: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events [syn: {memorial}]
2: an important site that is marked and preserved as public
property
3: a burial vault (usually for some famous person) [syn: {repository}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Monument, CO (town, FIPS 51800)
Location: 39.07013 N, 104.85712 W
Population (1990): 1020 (460 housing units)
Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 80132
Monument, KS
Zip code(s): 67747
Monument, NM
Zip code(s): 88265
Monument, OR (city, FIPS 49750)
Location: 44.81998 N, 119.41880 W
Population (1990): 162 (78 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97864
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which
either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
The bones of Agammemnon are a show
And ruined is his royal monument,
but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The
monument custom has its _reductiones ad absurdum_ in monuments "to the
unknown dead" -- that is to say monuments to perpetuate the memory of
those who have left no memory.
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