monument

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
  2. noun an important site that is marked and preserved as public property
  3. noun a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

Etymology

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

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Synonyms

memorial

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