monument

Meanings

1. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
2. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3. a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
4. A sign of exceptional achievement.
5. An important burial vault or tomb.
6. Any grave marker.
7. A legal document.
8. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
9. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
10. A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
11. A surviving record.
12. Alternative spelling of Monument (“prestigious one-day race”).

1. To mark or memorialize with a monument.
2. To place a surveyor's monument at.

1. A place in the United States:
2. A town in El Paso County, Colorado.
3. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Kansas.
4. A census-designated place in Lea County, New Mexico.
5. A minor city in Grant County, Oregon.
6. A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

1. Any of the five most prestigious men's one-day road cycling races: Milan–San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, Liege–Bastogne–Liege and Giro di Lombardia.

Etymology

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