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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#m1)

2) An old building or place that is important in history: an ancient monument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#m2)

3) A great example of something: a monument to hard work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x1)
- The Statue of Liberty is a famous monument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x2)
- Stonehenge is an ancient monument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x3)
- The city built a monument to its firefighters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x4)
- Please do not climb on the monument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x5)
- The bridge stands as a monument to the builders' skill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x6)
- Tourists queued to see the monument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x7)
- Our class laid flowers at the monument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x8)
- A monument was also erected over his grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «monument» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.