English-Lithuanian translations for monument

• monumentas
• paminklas
  Šios mažos piramidės yra matomas paminklas įstatymui, kurio pasekmės nebuvo numatytos. Those little cairns are a visible monument to the law of unintended consequences.
  Buvo atidengtas paminklas, skirtas žudikiškos Waffen SS Galizien divizijos kariams pagerbti. A monument commemorating the soldiers of the murderous Waffen SS Galizien Division was unveiled there.
  Iki dabar paminklas buvo suteptas dažais ir apgadintas šešiolika kartų, paskutinįjį kartą - vos daugiau nei prieš savaitę. The monument has been damaged and daubed with paint sixteen times to date, most recently just over a week ago.

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