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monument | American Dictionary

monument
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmɑn·jə·mənt/
an object, esp. large and made of stone, built to remember and show respect for a person or group of people, or a special place made for this purpose:
While in Washington, D.C., we visited a number of historical monuments.
fig. The annual arts festival is a monument to (= is a result of) her vision and hard work.

Examples of monument

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However, monuments and their deposits are only part of the story.
The very continuity of the monuments led them to change.
On the map, relevant streets, intersections, parks, monuments, buildings, street numbers, etc. will be identified.
679 incorporated life-size effigies of bishop and wife lying side by side as was commonplace in the monuments of gentry and nobility.
A third type of recorded monuments consists of large carved slabs depicting human figures in elaborate dress, sometimes accompanied by glyphic notations.
They were lived surrounded by such physical realities as monuments, fields, hills, valleys, and woodland.
I explore how these monuments were incorporated into a spatial narrative of imperial landscapes that was constructed through textual accounts, visual representations and architectural practice.
Deposits were placed into the earth, flint was taken out of the earth, monuments are fashioned out of the earth, and make it visible.
Hence, he started to carry out research that could be applied to such environmental problems as degradation of monuments due to atmospheric pollution.
In the corners of rooms, four-page sheets inform the spectator about historical and culture historical aspects of the monuments exhibited.
Thus, this same three-pulse pattern can be seen from tree rings, glacier advances, and last dates on buildings and monuments in the lowlands.
The press, streets, monuments, transportation, and countryside became a vast set on to which aperitif brands and their imagery could be projected.
They are meant to reclaim place from the desert of non-place and, in the process, serve as monuments against forgetting.
He also participated in various commissions related to the cultural-heritage preservation of archaeological sites, as well as the preservation of industrial historical monuments.
Three of the latter monuments celebrate the katun endings of 9.4.0.0.0 (514), 9.5.0.0.0 (534), and 9.6.0.0.0 (554).
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ancient monument
The suggestion that the archaeologist's embodied engagement with an ancientmonument or landscape can provide an insight into past experiences and interpretations is critically considered.
architectural monument
It is certainly a very large amount of money that is proposed to be spent on perpetuating and renovating this architecturalmonument.
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