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Noun monument has 3 senses
  1. memorial, monument - a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
    --1 is a kind of structure, construction
    --1 has particulars:
     brass, memorial tablet, plaque; cenotaph; gravestone, headstone, tombstone; Lincoln Memorial; megalith, megalithic structure; national monument; pantheon; Pyramid, Great Pyramid; Statue of Liberty; triumphal arch; Washington Monument
  2. monument - an important site that is marked and preserved as public property
    --2 is a kind of     site, land site
    --2 has particulars: market cross
  3. repository, monument - a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
    --3 is a kind of burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
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