Synonyms for monument
ˈmɒn yə məntmon·u·ment

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1. memorial, monumentnoun

   a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

   Synonyms:
   repository, remembrance, commemoration, memorial

2. monumentnoun

   an important site that is marked and preserved as public property

   Synonyms:
   repository, memorial

3. repository, monumentnoun

   a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

   Synonyms:
   repository, depositary, deposit, secretary, memorial, depository

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   • Structure

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1. monumentnoun

   Synonyms:
   memorial, testimonial, remembrancer, record

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1. monumentnoun

   Synonyms:
   tombstone, memorial, cenotaph, dolmen, cromlech

   Associated words:
   epitaph, lapidary

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1. List of paraphrases for "monument":

   memorial, monuments, monolith

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1. Aaron Balcom:

   Common sense dictates that I can not literally vanish a half million square foot monument. But it is conceivable that I can, for a short period of time, cause that monument to appear invisible to our audience.

2. Terry Farrell:

   You would understand far more what it used to be. It would be a sort of monument, it would be far better than going to a shopping center, or a luxury home, and saying, 'do you realize this used to be Battersea Power Station?'.

3. Thomas Vinterberg:

   We ended up making this movie for her as her monument.

4. President Trump:

   I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, people there were protesting the taking down of the monument to Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.

5. Jelle Wiersma:

   It is extremely fascinating and important for the science of paleontology that we can read so much information from the fossil record, allowing us to better understand extinct organisms and the ecosystems they were a part of, a major long-term goal of our work in southern Utah is to try and understand why the species in The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument differ from relatives of the same geologic age found in other parts of Laramidia.