monument

Etymology

From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial”), from monēre (“to remind”).

noun

1. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
   There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.
2. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3. An exceptional or proud achievement.
   The line became a monument to his drive and imagination - and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central. 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586
4. An important burial vault or tomb.
5. Any grave marker.
6. A legal document.
7. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
8. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
9. (surveying) A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
10. A surviving record.
    This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first written monument of the French language, eleven hundred years old. 1896, Auguste Brachet, Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15
    Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovak monument is the Žilina Town Book from the late 15ᵗʰ century 2018-06-11, Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →OCLC

verb

1. (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.