Alter vs Monument - What's the difference?
alter | monument |
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
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).
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As an adjective alter
is .As a noun monument is
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* alterer * alterability * alterative * alterable * alterablyExternal links
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(wikipedia monument)Noun
(en noun)- There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.
Hyponyms
* cenotaphExternal links
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