Word Finder - monument

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A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.

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There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.

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An important site owned by the community as a whole.

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An exceptional or proud achievement.

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An important burial vault or tomb.

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A legal document.

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A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

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A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.

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To mark or memorialize with a monument.

Her father moved to the center of the monument and looked around.

A monument to his memory was erected in 1898.

But somehow, I should prefer to see the originals in the place where Genius meant them to remain, not only as a hymn of praise to the gods, but also as a monument of the glory of Greece.

It dates from the 2nd century, and was the family monument of the Secundini.

The gateway yawned open over the monument.

Yully walked to the center of the monument.

The city contains a fine statue of Schiller, designed by Thorvaldsen; a bronze statue of Christopher, duke of Wurttemberg; a monument to the emperor William I.; an equestrian statue of King William I.

In one of the parks is a soldiers' and sailors' monument.

In front of it is the Denmark monument (1896), commemorating the golden wedding (1892) of Christian IX.

Of the Median Empire itself we do not possess a single monument.

She faced her father, not expecting to see the small crowd of people on the other side of the monument.

Something had changed with him, too, and she sensed the subtle power that hadn't been there at the monument.

In 1875 a great monument to Arminius was completed.

There are some ancient stone remains in Tongatapu, burial places (feitoka) built with great blocks, and a remarkable monument consisting of two large upright blocks morticed to carry a transverse one, on which was formerly a circular basin of stone.

The great monument of Gortyna discovered by Halbherr and Fabricius (Monumenti antichi, iii.) is the most important monument of early law hitherto brought to light in any part of the Greek world.

The Talmud shows the influence of that law in many points, and may justly be compared to it as a monument of codification based on great principles.

It is certain that at a very early period the Cretan cities were celebrated for their laws and system of government, and the most extensive monument of early Greek law is the great Gortyna inscription, discovered in 1884.

It contains a monument to William Cowper, who came to live here in 1796, and the Congregational chapel stands on the site of the house where the poet spent his last days.

Courtrai celebrated the 600th anniversary of the battle mentioned above by erecting a monument on the field in 1902, and also by fetes and historical processions that continued for a fortnight.

In Military Park is a monument to MajorGeneral Philip Kearny (1815-1862), and in Washington Park is a monument to Seth Boyden (1785-1870), a Newark inventor of malleable iron, of machinery for making nails, and of improvements in the steam-locomotive.

In a side chapel is a fine monument to the princely family of Thurn and Taxis, which had the monoply of the postal service in the old empire.

In the same park is also a monument 105 ft.

In State Street is the Dauphin County Soldiers' monument, a shaft io ft.

His oration in 1825 at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill monument contained perhaps the clearest statement to be found anywhere of the principles underlying the American War of Independence.

His funeral monument at St Denis depicts a man with beardless, square-cut features, but lacking character and animation.

Here in the night Mrs Dustin, assisted by her nurse and by a captive English boy, tomahawked and scalped ten Indians (two men, the others children and women) and escaped down the river to Haverhill; a monument to her stands in City Hall Park.

His monument, by Alfred Stevens, stands in the nave of the cathedral.

A monument on Hoad Hill commemorates Sir John Barrow, secretary of the admiralty and a native of the town.

The highly eulogistic epitaph on his monument at Bushley was written by Edmund Burke.

There is a monument for Edmund Neville who claimed the earldom of Westmorland in the 17th century, and William Stukeley, the antiquary, was buried in the churchyard.

In the city are two sanitariums. The city has two parks (one, Ethan Allen Park, is on a bluff in the north-west part of the city, and commands a fine view) and four cemeteries; in Green Mount Cemetery, which overlooks the Winooski valley, is a monument over the grave of Ethan Allen, who lived in Burlington from 1778 until his death.

Elected to the Municipal Council of Paris in 1879, he declared in favour of communal autonomy and joined with Henri Rochefort in demanding the erection of a monument to the Communards; but after his election to the Chamber of Deputies for the 5th arrondissement of Paris in 1881 he gradually veered from the extreme Radical party to the Republican Union, and identified himself with the cause of colonial expansion.

In the middle of the neighbouring Piazza della Scala stands Magni's monument of Leonardo da Vinci (1872).

In the modern piazza the steps leading up to this latter basilica and the base of a large monument were found in 1907; so that only a part of the piazza represents the ancient forum.

The town possesses two Protestant and a Roman Catholic church, a technical institute, a natural history museum, a library, a theatre, a monument to the emperor William I.

North-east of the Roman Catholic Cemetery, in the extreme eastern part of the city, is a monument to Miantonomo, a sachem of the Narraganset tribe of Indians, who was put to death here.

A monument was erected in 1905 to prominent members of the Yorkshire Miners' Association.

He died on the 4th of May 1677, and was interred in Westminster Abbey, where a monument, surmounted by his bust, was soon after erected by the contributions of his friends.

The report of the Parnell Commission is his monument.

A little to the east is the huge stone monument of C. Vibius, known to the Turks as Dikelitashlar and to the Greeks as the Manger of Bucephalus.

Encamping in the neighbourhood of the Abbey Craig - on which now stands the national monument to his memory - he watched the passage of the Forth.

The principal memorials embrace, besides the Roland, the Willehad fountain (1883), the monument of the Franco-German War (erected 1875), the centaur fountain (1891), an equestrian statue of the emperor William I.

He was buried in the churchyard of St Sebastian, but in 1752 his bones were removed to the porch of the church, and a monument of reddish-white marble was erected to his memory.

There is also another ducal residence, a fine park and a monument of the grand duke, Frederick Francis I.

The most prominent public buildings are the post office and the city hall; in front of the latter is a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.

Over his grave a monument to the memory of the Royal House of Stuart was placed here by Queen Victoria (1888).

The city has four parks, in one of which is a soldiers' and sailors' monument of granite and bronze, and not far away, along the shore of lake and bay, are several attractive summer resorts.

The city's charitable institutions consist of two general hospitals, each of which has a training school for nurses; a municipal hospital, an orphan asylum, a home for the friendless, two old folks' homes, and a bureau of charities; here, also, on a bluff, within a large enclosure and overlooking both lake and city, is the state soldiers' and sailors' home, and near by is a monument erected to the memory of General Anthony Wayne, who died here on the 15th of December 1796.

He was buried in the church of Croydon, and his monument there with his recumbent effigy was in great part destroyed in the fire by which the church vas burnt down in 1867.

The most important monument of the Middle Kingdom now extant at Thebes is the funerary temple of Menthotp III.