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Another word for monument

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monument

n.

Anything erected to preserve a memory
tomb, tombstone, marker, shaft, column, pillar, headstone, gravestone, cenotaph, mausoleum, obelisk, shrine, statue, building, erection, pile, tower, monolith, tablet, slab, stone; see also memorial.
A landmark in the history of creative work
work of art, magnum opus, exemplar, permanent contribution; see achievement 2, masterpiece.

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Another word for monument

noun

Something, as a structure or custom, serving to honor or keep alive a memory:

commemoration, memorial, remembrance. See remember

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Her father moved to the center of the monument and looked around.
But somehow, I should prefer to see the originals in the place where Genius meant them to remain, not only as a hymn of praise to the gods, but also as a monument of the glory of Greece.
It dates from the 2nd century, and was the family monument of the Secundini.
The discovery here of an official monument of Sargon II.
There is a fine monument commemorating the war of 1870-71, one (1859) to the local patriot Ferdinand von Schill, and another (1900) to the poet and patriot E.

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