mon|u|ment «MON yuh muhnt», noun.
1. an object or structure set up to keep a person or an event from being forgotten. A monument may be a building, pillar, arch, statue, tomb, or stone.
2. anything that keeps alive the memory of a person, civilization, period, or event. SYNONYM(S): memorial.
3. a permanent or prominent instance or example: »
The Hoover Dam is a monument of engineering. The professor's researches were monuments of learning.
4. U.S. Law. any permanent object, natural or artificial, serving to mark a boundary.
5. any area or site officially designated by a government as having special historical or natural significance.
6. something written or done by a person, regarded as his memorial after death: »
Except some unpublished despatches…and a few detached sayings, he has left no monument behind him (William E. H. Lecky).
8. Obsolete. an effigy.
╂[< Latin monumentum < monēre to remind, warn]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.