[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/monument/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) / monument

# monument

noun (a monument, monuments)

«monument» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A statue, building or stone made to remember a famous person or event. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#m2)
3. A great example of something: a monument to hard work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/#m3)

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

Here it means a lasting memorial, a "hand and a name." God promises it to faithful people who are not able to have children.

**Interpretation.** Isaiah is read as promising that eunuchs who keep the Sabbath and hold to the covenant will have a name better than children, and that foreigners who join are welcome too.

### Examples

- Even unto them will I give in My house and within My walls a monument and a memorial better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting memorial, that shall not be cut off. (Prophets ISA.56.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/monument/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «monument» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monument/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«monument» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/monument.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «monument» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/monument/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«monument» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/monument.html) on Mova free.