Meaning

• 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."

• An important site owned by the community as a whole.

• An exceptional or proud achievement.

• An important burial vault or tomb.

• A legal document.

• A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

• A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.

Meaning

• To mark or memorialize with a monument.