monument

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/, /ˈmɑnjəmənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnjʊmənt/

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• Hyphenation: mon‧u‧ment

monument (plural monuments)

1. 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. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3. (British) a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
4. A sign of exceptional achievement.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.

   • 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:

     The line became a monument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.

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. (surveying) A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
12. A surviving record.
    • 1896, Auguste Brachet, Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series)‎^[1], Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

      This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first written monument of the French language, eleven hundred years old.

    • 2018 June 11, Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK])‎^[2], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, →OCLC:

      Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovak monument is the Žilina Town Book from the late 15^th century

13. (cycling) Alternative spelling of Monument (“prestigious one-day race”).

monument (third-person singular simple present monuments, present participle monumenting, simple past and past participle monumented)

1. (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.
2. (transitive) To place a surveyor's monument at.
   • 1985, Input Formats and Specifications of the National Geodetic Survey Data Base, pages 3-8:

     Enter the year the marker was monumented. If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .

   • 2009, Stephen V. Estopinal, A Guide to Understanding Land Surveys, page 91:

     Having chosen and monumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.

   • 2012, T. J. Blachut, A. Chrzanowski, J. H. Saastamoinen, Urban Surveying and Mapping, page 69:

     The first-order network is usually monumented on the roofs of buildings; ground stations are used only in suburban districts.

• “monument”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “monument”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [mu.nuˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [mo.nuˈment]

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monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

• monumental

• “monument”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “monument”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “monument” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “monument” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): [monuˈmɛ̝ˀnd̥]

monument n (singular definite monumentet, plural indefinite monumenter)

1. monument

• mindesmærke

• “monument” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “monument” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoːnyˈmɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

monument n (plural monumenten, diminutive monumentje n)

1. monument

• → Indonesian: monumen
• → Papiamentu: monument (dated)

From German Monument, ultimately from Latin monumentum (“memorial”) (from monēre (“to remind”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonumenʲt/
• Hyphenation: mo‧nu‧ment

monument (genitive monumendi, partitive monumenti)

1. monument
   1. A sculpture or building built for the honour and commemoration of a person or an event.

Declension of monument (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		monument	monumendid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	monumendi
genitive			monumentide
partitive		monumenti	monumente monumentisid
illative		monumenti monumendisse	monumentidesse monumendesse
inessive		monumendis	monumentides monumendes
elative		monumendist	monumentidest monumendest
allative		monumendile	monumentidele monumendele
adessive		monumendil	monumentidel monumendel
ablative		monumendilt	monumentidelt monumendelt
translative		monumendiks	monumentideks monumendeks
terminative		monumendini	monumentideni
essive		monumendina	monumentidena
abessive		monumendita	monumentideta
comitative		monumendiga	monumentidega

• mälestusmärk
• mälestussammas
• mälestuskivi
• ausammas
• sammas
• mälestis
• memoriaal

• monumentaalne

• monument in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ny.mɑ̃/

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monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

• “monument”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

monument n (definite singular monumentet, indefinite plural monument or monumenter, definite plural monumenta or monumentene)

1. monument

• monumental

• “monument” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

monument n (definite singular monumentet, indefinite plural monument, definite plural monumenta)

1. monument

• monumental

• “monument” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin monumentum. Attested from the 13th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /munyˈmen/

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monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

• monumental

• IPA^(key): /munyˈmɛŋt/

monument m

1. monument

Learned borrowing from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈnu.mɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -umɛnt
• Syllabification: mo‧nu‧ment

monument m inan (diminutive monumencik)

1. (sculpture) monument (structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons)

   Synonym: pomnik

2. monument (exceptional or prideful achievement)

• monument in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• monument in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French monument, Latin monumentum. Doublet of the inherited mormânt.

• IPA^(key): /mo.nuˈment/

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monument n (plural monumente)

1. monument
2. memorial

• monumental

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

• IPA^(key): /moːnɵˈmɛnt/

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monument n

1. monument

• minnesmärke