Definition of Monumint
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- a structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration
- an important site owned by the community as a whole
- an exceptionally or prideful achievement
- an important burial vault or tomb
- a legal document
- monumentally
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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