Čo znamená monument v angličtine a aká je definícia monument?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť monument výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

monument Význam & definícia

0 a structure or building that is built to honour a special person or event:
- In the square in front of the hotel stands a monument to all the people killed in the war.
- Parts of the Berlin wall are being allowed to stand as historic monuments.
1 an object, esp. large and made of stone, built to remember and show respect for a person or group of people, or a special place made for this purpose:
- While in Washington, D.C., we visited a number of historical monuments.
- fig. The annual arts festival is a monument to (= is a result of) her vision and hard work.

The monument stands as a chilling reminder of man's inhumanity to man.
The park that encloses the monument has recently been enlarged.
Grizzled veterans in uniform gathered at the war monument.
The monument was hewn out of the side of a mountain.
The pyramids are a living monument to the skill of their builders.
Almost the only demand for considerable works of sculpture arise from the monuments erected to eminent men.
The restoration of these monuments, so long abandoned, in the nineteenth century, made this homogenisation still more pronounced.
However, recording information that is clear and unequivocal becomes more difficult the greater the number and variety of monuments.