monument

About 6.43 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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. noun An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3. noun a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
4. noun A sign of exceptional achievement.
5. noun An important burial vault or tomb.
6. noun Any grave marker.
7. noun A legal document.
8. noun A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

Similar words

memorial repository landmark monumental building cenotaph artifact monolith statue cairn

Often followed by

to of in is was and at erected on

Word family

monuments