English-French translations for monument

• mémorial
• monument
  Pourquoi cet échec monumental de l'aide à l'Afrique? Why the monumental failure of the aid to Africa?
  Ériger des monuments de plus de dix mètres de haut n'est pas nécessaire. Erecting more 10 m tall monuments is unnecessary.
  Ces petits monticules sont autant de monuments à la loi des conséquences indésirables. Those little cairns are a visible monument to the law of unintended consequences.

Definition of monument

• A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration
• An important site owned by the community as a whole
• An important burial vault or tomb
• A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument
• To mark or memorialize with a monument

Examples

• There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I

Related words

• monumental
• monumentality
• monumentally
• monumentalism
• monumental area
• monumental gateway
• ancient monument
• funerary monument
• natural monument