monumentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial”), from monēre (“to remind”)

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/, /ˈmɑnjəmənt/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnjʊmənt/
• ハイフネーション: mon‧u‧ment

名詞

monument (複数形 monuments)

A monument (definitions 1 または 2) in Lithuania at the Geographical Center of Europe

1. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.

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

2. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
3. An exceptional or proud achievement.
   • 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:

     The line became a monument to his drive and imagination - and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.

4. An important burial vault or tomb.
5. A legal document.
6. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
7. A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.

下位語

• cenotaph

派生語

• ancient monument
• natural monument

関連する語

• monumental
• monumentally

動詞

monument (三人称単数 現在形 monuments, 現在分詞 monumenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 monumented)

1. (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.

Further reading

• monument in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• monument in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.