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Noun: monument  mónyumunt
  1. A structure erected to commemorate persons or events
    - memorial
     
  2. An important site that is marked and preserved as public property
     
  3. A burial vault (usually for some famous person)
    - repository

Derived forms: monuments

See also: monumental

Type of: burial chamber, construction, land site, sepulcher [US], sepulchre [Brit, Cdn], sepulture, site, structure

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