Definition of Monument

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Monument

Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.

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.

A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.

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Monument Quotations

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. Thompson

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Paul Harvey

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
George Will

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
Pamela Anderson

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
Tommy Douglas

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.
Ernest Thompson Seton

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
Sylvester Stallone

Monument Translations

monument in Afrikaans is monument
monument in Danish is monument
monument in Dutch is monument, gedenkteken
monument in French is monument
monument in German is Denkmal
monument in Italian is monumento
monument in Norwegian is minnesmerke
monument in Portuguese is monumento
monument in Spanish is monumento

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