| 单词 | monument |
| 释义 | monument (once / 224 pages) n A monument is a statue or other sculpture meant to honor a great person, like the Lincoln Monument or Washington Monument. You can find monuments in the downtown area of most cities. Many honor a specific person, while other are dedicated to soldiers who fought in a certain war, such as Vietnam or World War I. Cemeteries are also full of monuments, and monument can mean a type of burial vault. Whenever people create a monument, they're trying to make sure that a person or event is remembered. WORD FAMILYmonument: monumental, monuments+/monumental: monumentalest, monumentalise, monumentalize, monumentally/monumentalize: monumentalized, monumentalizes, monumentalizing USAGE EXAMPLESWhether Mr. Obama’s latest monuments will survive is also in question. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “It’s not like preserving a building or a battlefield — there were some 300 of these monuments originally set in place, each separated by a mile.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Christy said the monument designation and restrictions on its land raise the bar on fully developing resources on the trust’s parcels. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a structure erected to commemorate persons or events Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper memorial Lincoln Memorial memorial building in Washington containing a large marble statue of Abraham Lincoln Pyramids of Egypta massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt Statue of Libertya large monumental statue symbolizing liberty on Liberty Island in New York Bay Washington Monumenta stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington; 555 feet tall brass, memorial tablet, plaque a memorial made of brass cenotaph, empty tomba monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered gravestone, headstone, tombstonea stone that is used to mark a grave megalith, megalithic structurememorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) national monumentmemorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest; set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment pantheona monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Seven Wonders of the Worldimpressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe triumphal archa monumental archway; usually they are built to commemorate some notable victory cromlech, dolmen, portal tomba prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone menhir, standing stonea tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France construction, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts 2n a burial vault (usually for some famous person) Syn|Hyper repository burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture a chamber that is used as a grave 3n an important site that is marked and preserved as public property Exp|Hypo|Hyper Stonehenge an ancient megalithic monument in southern England; probably used for ritual purposes market cross a cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted land site, site the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) |
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