monument
/ˈmɒnjʊmənt/
Dictionary
noun
- 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."
- An important site owned by the community as a whole.
- An exceptional or proud achievement.
- An important burial vault or tomb.
- A legal document.
- A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
- A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
verb
- To mark or memorialize with a monument.
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