monument
(noun)
noun
1. a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
Similar word(s): memorial
Definition categories: man–made, construction, structure
2. an important site that is marked and preserved as public property
Definition categories: location, site
3. a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Similar word(s): repository
Definition categories: man–made, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
Sentences with monument as a noun:
- There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.