Usually means: Structure commemorating significant person, event.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. monument: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. monument: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monument: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monument, the Monument: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monument: Vocabulary.com
  6. Monument, monument: Wordnik
  7. monument: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. monument: Wiktionary
  9. monument: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. monument: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. monument: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Monument, monument: Dictionary.com
  13. monument: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. monument: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Monument: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. monument: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. monument: Rhymezone
  19. Monument (nt), monument, monument (het), monument (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. monument: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. monument: Free Dictionary
  22. monument: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. monument: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Monument: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monument: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. monument: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. monument: Legal dictionary
  7. monument: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monument: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. monument: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Monument: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
noun:  An important site owned by the community as a whole.
noun:  A sign of exceptional achievement.
noun:  An important burial vault or tomb.
noun:  Any grave marker.
noun:  A legal document.
noun:  A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
noun:  A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
noun:  (surveying) A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
noun:  A surviving record.
verb:  (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.
verb:  (transitive) To place a surveyor's monument at.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A town in El Paso County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Logan County, Kansas.
noun:  A census-designated place in Lea County, New Mexico.
noun:  A minor city in Grant County, Oregon.
noun:  A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

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