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Definition of Monuments
1. monument [n] - See also: monument
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monuments
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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