monument

From: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

monument • noun   1. build a monument to the dead soldiers synonyms : memorial, statue, shrine, reliquary, sepulcher, mausoleum, cairn, pillar, column, obelisk, dolmen, megalith.
  2. place a monument on the grave synonyms : gravestone, headstone, tombstone.
  3. establish a scholarship as a monument to his talent synonyms : memorial, commemoration, remembrance, reminder, testament, witness, token.

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