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monument

See also: Monument and monûment

EnglishEdit

 
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Devils Tower National Monument.

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial”), from monēre (“to remind”).

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monument (plural monuments)

 
A monument (definitions 1 or 2) in Lithuania at the Geographical Center of Europe
  1. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
    There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.
  2. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
  3. An exceptional or proud achievement.
    • 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:
      The line became a monument to his drive and imagination - and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.
  4. An important burial vault or tomb.
  5. Any grave marker.
  6. A legal document.
  7. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
  8. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
  9. (surveying) A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
  11. A surviving record.
    • 1896, Auguste Brachet and Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series)‎[1], Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
      This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first written monument of the French language, eleven hundred years old.
    • 2018 June 11, Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editor, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK])‎[2], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovak monument is the Žilina Town Book from the late 15th century

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monument (third-person singular simple present monuments, present participle monumenting, simple past and past participle monumented)

  1. (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.

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EtymologyEdit

Probably borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument m (plural monuments)

  1. monument

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument n (singular definite monumentet, plural indefinite monumenter)

  1. monument

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DutchEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument n (plural monumenten, diminutive monumentje n)

  1. monument

DescendantsEdit

  • → Indonesian: monumen
  • → Papiamentu: monument (dated)

EstonianEdit

 
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Russalka monument in Tallinn

EtymologyEdit

From German Monument, ultimately from Latin monumentum (“memorial”) (from monēre (“to remind”)).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmonumenʲt/
  • Hyphenation: mo‧nu‧ment

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monument (genitive monumendi, partitive monumenti)

  1. monument
    1. A sculpture or building built for the honour and commemoration of a person or an event.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of monument (type riik)
singular plural
nominative monument monumendid
genitive monumendi monumentide
partitive monumenti monumente / monumentisid
illative monumenti / monumendisse monumentidesse / monumendesse
inessive monumendis monumentides / monumendes
elative monumendist monumentidest / monumendest
allative monumendile monumentidele / monumendele
adessive monumendil monumentidel / monumendel
ablative monumendilt monumentidelt / monumendelt
translative monumendiks monumentideks / monumendeks
terminative monumendini monumentideni
essive monumendina monumentidena
abessive monumendita monumentideta
comitative monumendiga monumentidega

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument m (plural monuments)

  1. monument

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

NounEdit

monument m (plural monuments)

  1. monument

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument n (definite singular monumentet, indefinite plural monument or monumenter, definite plural monumenta or monumentene)

  1. monument

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument n (definite singular monumentet, indefinite plural monument, definite plural monumenta)

  1. monument

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OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum. Attested from the 13th century.[1]

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monument m (plural monuments)

  1. monument

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  1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 390.

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monument m

  1. monument

PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /mɔˈnu.mɛnt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -umɛnt
  • Syllabification: mo‧nu‧ment

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monument m inan (diminutive monumencik)

  1. (sculpture) monument (structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons)
    Synonym: pomnik
  2. monument (exceptional or prideful achievement)

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Declension of monument
singular plural
nominative monument monumenty
genitive monumentu monumentów
dative monumentowi monumentom
accusative monument monumenty
instrumental monumentem monumentami
locative monumencie monumentach
vocative monumencie monumenty

Further readingEdit

  • monument in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • monument in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French monument, Latin monumentum. Doublet of the inherited mormânt.

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monument n (plural monumente)

  1. monument
  2. memorial

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Declension of monument
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) monument monumentul (niște) monumente monumentele
genitive/dative (unui) monument monumentului (unor) monumente monumentelor
vocative monumentule monumentelor

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

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monument n

  1. monument

DeclensionEdit

Declension of monument 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative monument monumentet monumenter monumenterna
Genitive monuments monumentets monumenters monumenternas

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