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Meanings of monument in English

Russian
памятник
Portuguese
monumento
Catalan
monument commemoratiu
Spanish
monumento
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Type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event, or used for that purpose.

        памятник
        Portuguese
        monumento
        Catalan
        monument
        Spanish
        monumento

        A burial vault (usually for some famous person)

              monumento
              Usage of monument in English
              1
              The new monument will also commemorate victims of Stalin's repression, Rurua said.
              Reuters
              2
              Facebook Twitter Pinterest Claimed by Europe... the Beethoven monument in Bonn, Germany.
              The Guardian
              3
              A military monument was certainly more in tune with the war sphinxes.
              Halo Cryptum
              4
              Writer visited the new monument to the war dead in New York.
              The new yorker
              5
              Traffic jams are common on the small road leading to the monument.
              Reuters
              6
              Massé, Father Ennemond, dies at Sillery; first missionary in Canada; monument to.
              Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
              7
              A monument to his memory was erected in the church in 1896.
              A Wanderer in Florence
              8
              The monument is in the form of a statue and was dedicated.
              The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6
              9
              Her own monument is in one of the chapels of the transept.
              Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
              10
              At the dedication of the Sudbury monument I made the following address:
              Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
              11
              The control tower, while not exactly an Imperial monument, proved most interesting.
              Outposts: journeys to the surviving relics of the british empire
              12
              A vast monument, it is now home to presidential offices and parliament.
              The Irish Times
              13
              The crypt is the most ancient monument of Christian architecture in Brittany.
              Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
              14
              A monument of that eternal conflict is the Great Wall of China.
              The Awakening of China
              15
              All the other ornaments sculptured on the monument are in perfect preservation.
              Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
              16
              This historical pile was perhaps the most magnificent monument in the Province.
              The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
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