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Monument vs Commemorate - What's the difference?

monument | commemorate |

As a noun monument

is monument.

As a verb commemorate is

to honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony.

monument

English

(wikipedia monument)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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).

    • Related terms

    * monumental * monumentally

    Hyponyms

    * cenotaph

    External links

    * *


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    commemorate

    English

    Verb

  • To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony.
  • * On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.
  • To serve as a memorial to someone or something.
  • * The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.

    • Synonyms

    * memorialize

    Derived terms

    * commemorative * commemoration English transitive verbs ----