What is another word for monuments?

Pronunciation: [mˈɒnjuːmənts] (IPA)

Monuments are structures that commemorate an event or a person. They can be found all over the world in various forms such as statues, buildings, and memorials. Synonyms for monuments include landmarks, memorials, tributes, installations, shrines, obelisks, cenotaphs, and plaques. Landmarks are structures that are easily recognizable and act as identifiers for a location. Memorials are created to remember and honor someone who has passed. Tributes are similar to memorials but can also be created to honor a person's contribution or achievement. Installations are a contemporary form of monument that includes artistic installations and sculptures. Shrines are religious or spiritual monuments, while obelisks are tall, narrow monuments with four sides tapering to a pyramid-shaped top. Finally, cenotaphs and plaques are simple monuments that are usually inscribed with a message or an inscription.

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Usage examples for Monuments

Camels, it is said, are not to be found on the monuments, but yet they were certainly known and possessed by Egypt, though there were many reasons why they should be held chiefly on the frontiers, and perhaps in connection with the Arabian mines and settlements.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
These rocks will stand as monuments to the memory of my faithful savage comrades when all else is forgotten.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
They're the kind they ought to put up monuments to.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Monuments

  • People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
    Bruce Babbitt
  • Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
    Bruce Babbitt
  • I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
    Tommy Douglas
  • It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
    Dick Durbin

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