monument

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1. 1.A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak.
2. 2.A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
3. 3.A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. Foxe.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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