Monument : (noun)
1: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events [syn: memorial]
2: an important site that is marked and preserved as public
property
3: a burial vault (usually for some famous person) [syn: repository]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Monument : \Mon"u*ment\, n. [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to
remind, admonish. See Monition, and cf. Moniment.]
1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance
what is past; a memorial.
Of ancient British art A pleasing monument.
--Philips.
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. --Shak.
2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to
preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.;
as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument.
Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.
On your family's old monument Hang mournful
epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a
burial. --Shak.
3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a
limit or to mark a boundary.
4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous
days. --Foxe.
Syn: Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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MONUMENT. A thing intended to transmit to posterity the memory of some one;
it is used, also, to signify a tomb where a dead body has been deposited. In
this sense it differs from a cenotaph, which is at empty tomb. Dig. 11, 7,
2, 6; Id. 11, 7, 2, 42.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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MONUMENTS. Permanent landmarks established for the purpose of ascertaining
boundaries.
2. Monuments may be either natural or artificial objects, as rivers,
known streams, springs, or marked trees. 7 Wheat. R. 10; 6 Wheat. R. 582; 9
Cranch, 173; 6 Pet. 498; Pet. C. C. R. 64; 3 Ham. 284; 5 Ham. 534; 5 N. H.
Rep. 524; 3 Dev. 75. Even posts set up at the corners, 5 Ham. 534, and a
clearing, 7 Cowen, 723, are considered as monuments. Sed vide 3 Dev. 75.
3. When monuments are established, they must govern, although neither
courses, nor distances, nor 'computed' contents correspond; 5 Cowen, 346; 1
Cowen, 605; 6 Cowen, 706; 7 Cowen, 723; 6 Mass. 131; 2 Mass. 380; 3 Pick.
401; 5 Pick. 135; 3 Gill & John. 142,; 5 Har. & John. 163, 255; 2 Id. 260;
Wright, 176; 5 Ham. 534; 1 H. & McH. 355; 2 H. & McH. 416; Cooke, 146; 1
Call, 429; 3 Call, 239; 3 Fairf. 325; 4 H. & M. 125; 1 Hayw. 22; 5 J. J.
Marsh. 578; 3 Hawks, 91; 3 Murph. 88; 4 Monr. 32; 5 Monr. 175; 2 Overt. 200;
2 Bibb, 493; S. C. 6 Wheat. 582; 4 W. C. C. Rep. 15. Vide Boundary.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Monument, CO (town, FIPS 51800)
Location: 39.07013 N, 104.85712 W
Population (1990): 1020 (460 housing units)
Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 80132
Monument, KS
Zip code(s): 67747
Monument, NM
Zip code(s): 88265
Monument, OR (city, FIPS 49750)
Location: 44.81998 N, 119.41880 W
Population (1990): 162 (78 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97864
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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