monument
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(noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property |
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Related Words: land site, market cross, site |
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(noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events |
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Synonyms: memorial |
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Related Words: Statue of Liberty, brass, cenotaph, construction, gravestone, headstone, megalith, megalithic structure, memorial tablet, national monument, pantheon, plaque, pyramid, structure, tombstone, triumphal arch |
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(noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) |
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Synonyms: repository |
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Related Words: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture |
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