Definition of Monuments

1. Noun. (plural of monument) ¹

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Definition of Monuments

1. monument [n] - See also: monument

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monuments

monture
montures
monty
monument
monumental
monumentalise
monumentalism
monumentalities
monumentality
monumentalize
monumentalized
monumentalizes
monumentalizing
monumentally
monumented
monuments (current term)
monureid
monureide
monureides
monuron
monurons
mony
monzogranite
monzogranites
monzogranitic
monzonite
monzonites
moo
moo-cow
moo-cows

Literary usage of Monuments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Institute of British Architects (1884)
"To make an inventory of the Arab monuments in Egypt possessed of artistic or historic ... To watch over the maintenance and preservation of these monuments, ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER XII Why the 'Americans Raise Some monuments so Insignificant, and Others so Important I HAVE just observed, that in democratic ages monuments of the ..."

3. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"Ancient monuments by General Pitt Rivers, late Government Inspector of Ancient monuments. The Ancient monuments Act of 1882 ia purely permissive. ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER XII Why the 'Americans Raise Some monuments so Insignificant, and Others so Important T HAVE just observed, that in democratic ages monuments I of ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"Many such monuments had been destroyed, and the ruins had then been used as ... He was the first man of the Renaissance who had studied the monuments of ..."

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