Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

Verb

The word "monument" can be used as noun, proper noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

big city cemetary cemetery cities city front of museum large city municipal park museum old part of city public gardens state park

Capable Of

statue

Derived Terms

Monument Hills Monument Valley ancient monument megamonument monument plant monument sign monumentless monumentlike monumentous national monument natural monument remonumentation survey monument

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

burial chamber construction land site sepulcher sepulchre sepulture site structure

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

cenotaph headstone obelisk vault

Type Of (IsA)

fixed freestanding structure homemade object landmark memorial site

Receives Action

built to honor people

Related Terms

monumental monumentally

Related Terms

achievement commemoration commemorative community large large structure like like washington memorial monumental monumentally structure washington washington something

Synonym Network

memorial repository

Used For

adopting model celebrating persons life commemorating decoration honor war heroes honoring honoring event honoring important person or event honoring person mark grave memorial recognition remember remember person or event remembering remembering event remembering worth remembering sharing history show visit

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.