Associations to the word «Monument»

Wiktionary

MONUMENT, noun. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
MONUMENT, noun. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
MONUMENT, noun. An exceptional or proud achievement.
MONUMENT, noun. An important burial vault or tomb.
MONUMENT, noun. A legal document.
MONUMENT, noun. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

Dictionary definition

MONUMENT, noun. A structure erected to commemorate persons or events.
MONUMENT, noun. An important site that is marked and preserved as public property.
MONUMENT, noun. A burial vault (usually for some famous person).

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King