<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.</li><li>Any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age, and regarded as of historical or archaeological importance.</li><li>Any enduring evidence or notable example of something: a monument to human ingenuity.</li><li>An exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality, especially when considered to be beyond question: a monument of middle-class respectability.</li><li>An area or a site of interest to the public for its historical significance, great natural beauty, etc., preserved and maintained by a government.</li><li>A written tribute to a person, especially a posthumous one.</li><li>Surveying: an object, as a stone shaft, set in the ground to mark the boundaries of real estate or to mark a survey station.</li><li>A person considered as a heroic figure or of heroic proportions: He became a monument in his lifetime.</li><li>Obsolete: a tomb; sepulcher.</li><li>A statue.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) To build a monument or monuments to; commemorate: to monument the nation's war dead.</li><li>To build a monument on: to monument a famous site.</li></ul>