monument

See also: Monument and monûment

English

Devils Tower National Monument.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial”), from monēre (“to remind”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/, /ˈmɑnjəmənt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnjʊmənt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: mon‧u‧ment

Noun

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.
4. An important burial vault or tomb.
5. A legal document.
6. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

Hyponyms

• cenotaph

Derived terms

• ancient monument
• natural monument

Related terms

• monumental
• monumentally

Translations

structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons

• Afrikaans: monument
• Albanian: përmendore (sq) f, monument (sq) m
• Arabic: نُصُب (ar) (nuṣub)
• Armenian: հուշարձան (hy) (hušarjan)
• Azerbaijani: abidə (az)
• Belarusian: по́мнік m (pómnik), па́мятнік m (pámjatnik), мануме́нт m (manumjént)
• Bengali: স্মৃতিসৌধ (smritiśōudh)
• Bulgarian: па́метник (bg) m (pámetnik), монуме́нт (bg) m (monumént)
• Burmese: ပေါ်ထင်စေသောအရာ (pauhtangcesau:a.ra)
• Catalan: monument (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紀念碑／纪念碑 (zh) (jìniànbēi), 纪念碑 (zh) (jìniànbēi)

• Czech: památník (cs) m, monument (cs) m, pomník (cs) m
• Danish: monument, mindesmærke
• Dutch: monument (nl) n
• Estonian: mälestussammas, monument (et), mälestusmärk
• Finnish: monumentti (fi)
• French: monument (fr) m, mémorial (fr)
• Galician: monumento (gl) m
• Georgian: ძეგლი (ʒegli), მონუმენტი (monumenṭi)
• German: Denkmal (de) n, Monument (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: μνῆμα n (mnêma)

• Hebrew: מוֹנוֹמֶנְט (he), אַנדַרטָה (he)
• Hindi: स्मारक (hi) m (smārak)
• Hungarian: emlékmű (hu)
• Icelandic: minnismerki (is) n
• Indonesian: tugu (id)
• Italian: monumento (it) m
• Japanese: 記念碑 (きねんひ, kinenhi), モニュメント (monyumento)
• Kazakh: ескерткіш (kk) (eskertkış)
• Khmer: វិមាន (km) (vimiən), អនុស្សាវរីយ៍ (a’nuhsaava’rii)
• Korean: 기념비 (ko) (ginyeombi) (紀念碑)
• Kyrgyz: эстелик (ky) (estelik)
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• Lao: ອານຸສາວະລີ (lo) (ʼā nu sā wa lī)
• Latin: monumentum n
• Latvian: piemineklis m, monuments m
• Lithuanian: paminklas m, monumentas m
• Luxembourgish: Monument
• Macedonian: спо́меник m (spómenik)
• Mongolian: хөшөө (mn) (xöšöö)
• Norman: monûment m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: monument n

  Nynorsk: monument n

• Pashto: يادګار m (yādgā́r), آبده (ps) f (ābedá), ماذنه (māzána)
• Persian: یادمان (fa) (yâdmân)
• Polish: pomnik (pl) m, monument (pl) m
• Portuguese: monumento (pt) m
• Romanian: monument (ro)
• Russian: па́мятник (ru) m (pámjatnik), монуме́нт (ru) m (monumént)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: споменик m, монумент m

  Roman: spomenik (sh) m, monument (sh) m

• Slovak: pamätník m, monument m, pomník m
• Slovene: spomenik (sl) m
• Spanish: monumento (es) m
• Swedish: monument (sv), minnesmärke (sv)
• Tagalog: bantayog (tl)
• Tajik: ёдгорӣ (yodgorī), ҳайкал (tg) (haykal)
• Thai: อนุสาวรีย์ (th) (à-nú-sǎa-wá-rii), อนุสรณ์สถาน (à-nú-sɔ̌ɔn-sà-tǎan)
• Tibetan: དྲན་གསོའི་རྟེན (dran gso'i rten)
• Turkish: anıt (tr), abide (tr)
• Turkmen: monument, ýadygärlik
• Ukrainian: па́м'ятник m (pámʺjatnyk), монуме́нт m (monumént)
• Urdu: یادگار (ur) (yādgār)
• Uzbek: haykal (uz), monument (uz), yodgorlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: đài tưởng niệm
• Yiddish: דענקמאָל (denkmol)

important site owned by the community as a whole

• Finnish: monumentti (fi)
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exceptional or prideful achievement

• Finnish: suursaavutus
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important burial vault

• Finnish: hautamuistomerkki (fi)
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legal document

• Finnish: asiakirja (fi)
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Verb

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.

Further reading

• “monument”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “monument”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Catalan

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Noun

monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

Related terms

• monumental

Further reading

• “monument” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “monument”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “monument” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “monument” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Noun

monument n (singular definite monumentet, plural indefinite monumenter)

1. monument

Synonyms

• mindesmærke

References

• “monument” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

monument n (plural monumenten, diminutive monumentje n)

1. monument

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Estonian

Noun

monument (genitive monumendi, partitive monumenti)

1. monument

See also

• mälestusmärk
• mälestussammas

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ny.mɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

Further reading

• “monument”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Noun

monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Noun

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

1. a monument

Related terms

• monumental

References

• “monument” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Noun

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

1. a monument

Related terms

• monumental

References

• “monument” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Noun

monument m (plural monuments)

1. monument

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

monument n (plural monumente)

1. monument
2. memorial

Related terms

• monumental

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monumentum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

monument n

1. monument

Declension

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

Synonyms

• minnesmärke