1.Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial. "Of ancient British art A pleasing monument." "Our bruised arms hung up for monuments."
2.A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. "On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial."
3.A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
4.A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. "Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days."
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