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landmark

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"Notable site"

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈlændmɑːk/Part of speech nounSorted aadklmnrStarts with LEnds with K1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A notable place or feature that helps identify a location.

Word origin

From Middle English *landmark, from Old English landmearc (“boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *landamarku (“boundary, landmark”). Equivalent to land + mark. Cognate with German Landmarke (“landmark”), Danish landemærke (“landmark”), Swedish landmärke (“landmark”), Norwegian landemerke (“landmark”) and Faroese landamark (“land frontier”). Compare also Middle English londes-mark (“boundary”).

Used in a sentence

  • Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads in the olden days?
  • an important landmark in human history
  • a landmark paper in neurosurgery

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