monument

CEFRB1

/ˈmɑnjʊmənt/

noun

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noun
A structure built to remember a person or important event.
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noun
Extra detail
a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

An important site owned by the community as a whole.
A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
A sign of exceptional achievement.

In context

The monument was set up in the park.
There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.
The line became a monument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.

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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.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
The line became a monument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.
1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586
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.
1896, Auguste Brachet, Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15
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 15ᵗʰ century
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]), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, →OCLC
Enter the year the marker was monumented. If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .
1985, Input Formats and Specifications of the National Geodetic Survey Data Base, pages 3-8

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