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Word entry · 8 letters

monument

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"Commemorative structure"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/Part of speech nounSorted emmnnotuStarts with MEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.
  • The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
  • The line became a monument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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