monument

Everyday

1. A statue, building or stone made to remember a famous person or event. tree →
2. An old building or place that is important in history: an ancient monument. tree →
3. A great example of something: a monument to hard work. tree →

In the lessons

In history lessons and on school trips, pupils visit monuments such as statues, war memorials and ancient stones. In everyday life tourists photograph monuments. Phrases: national monument, ancient monument, a monument to, war monument.

Examples

• We visited a monument to the soldiers of the town. tree →
• The Statue of Liberty is a famous monument. tree →
• Stonehenge is an ancient monument. tree →
• The city built a monument to its firefighters. tree →
• Please do not climb on the monument. tree →
• The bridge stands as a monument to the builders' skill. tree →
• Tourists queued to see the monument. tree →
• Our class laid flowers at the monument. tree →
• A monument was also erected over his grave. tree →

Note

Countable: monuments. Adjective: monumental (very big or very important: «a monumental mistake»). Similar: memorial (made especially to remember people who died), statue.

In Jewish tradition

Here it means a lasting memorial, a "hand and a name." God promises it to faithful people who are not able to have children.

Interpretation. Isaiah is read as promising that eunuchs who keep the Sabbath and hold to the covenant will have a name better than children, and that foreigners who join are welcome too.

Examples

• Even unto them will I give in My house and within My walls a monument and a memorial better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting memorial, that shall not be cut off. (Prophets ISA.56.5, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable: monuments. Adjective: monumental (very big or very important: «a monumental mistake»). Similar: memorial (made especially to remember people who died), statue.