Thesaurus results for MONUMENT

monument

noun

ˈmän-yə-mənt

as in tombstone

a shaped stone laid over or erected near a grave and usually bearing an inscription to identify and preserve the memory of the deceased the Quakers disapproved of monuments, regarding them as idolatrous, so thousands of Nantucketers spend their eternal rest in complete anonymity

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as in reminder

something that serves to keep alive the memory of a person or event a moving monument to the great war and a tribute to the untold millions who died in it

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Recent Examples of monument A week later, the Grant Park Columbus statue was removed, to the cheers of people who said monuments to Columbus are insults to Indigenous Americans. —

Adam Harrington, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026 Let your members of Congress know that preservation of the monument requires leaving the current resource management plan in place. —

Stephen Trimble, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026 In 2024, Arizona GOP lawmakers sued the Biden administration in response to the new monument. —

Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026 Government control of its own products What happens when the government itself hosts forums for citizen speech, such as placing monuments in a park or flying flags on government property? —

Jason Zenor, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for monument

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Last year, the City Council approved an ordinance to offer rewards for information involving theft of city plaques, tombstones, statues, light standards, and copper wire, and theft of metals linked to the Sixth Street Bridge.

— City News Service, Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
By day the place was filled with different sorts of tombstones, many of them inside ornamental enclosures.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026