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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
    
4. A lasting reminder of something; an exceptional achievement
   "He helped to found a great magazine which will be a monument to his memory"

Derived forms: monuments

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

Encyclopedia: Monument, Or