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1.nounA structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration."There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I."
2.nounAn important site owned by the community as a whole.
3.nounAn exceptional or proud achievement.
4.nounAn important burial vault or tomb.
5.nounA legal document.
6.nounA surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
7.nounA pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
8.verbTo mark or memorialize with a monument.