English Explanatory Dictionary

monumentous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. monumental; very large or important
  2. memorable or remarkable; worthy of recording or memorializing.

Word forms

monumentous more monumentous most monumentous

Etymology

From monument + -ous. First attested in 1889, probably a new formation, comparable with Latin monumentosum, Portuguese monumentoso (“monumental”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary