monument

«monument» in Mova's school dictionary: A statue, building or stone made to remember a famous… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a monument, monuments)

meaning for a pupil

1) A statue, building or stone made to remember a famous person or event. tree →

2) An old building or place that is important in history: an ancient monument. tree →

3) A great example of something: a monument to hard work. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons and on school trips, pupils visit monuments such as statues, war memorials and ancient stones. In everyday life tourists photograph monuments. Phrases: national monument, ancient monument, a monument to, war monument.

examples

• We visited a monument to the soldiers of the town. tree →
• The Statue of Liberty is a famous monument. tree →
• Stonehenge is an ancient monument. tree →
• The city built a monument to its firefighters. tree →
• Please do not climb on the monument. tree →
• The bridge stands as a monument to the builders' skill. tree →
• Tourists queued to see the monument. tree →
• Our class laid flowers at the monument. tree →
• A monument was also erected over his grave. tree →

note

Countable: monuments. Adjective: monumental (very big or very important: «a monumental mistake»). Similar: memorial (made especially to remember people who died), statue.

In the corpora

• Climbing on statues, monuments and museum displays leads to falls on hard floors and damage that cannot be undone.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «monument» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.