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Monument vs Tombstone - What's the difference?

monument | tombstone | Synonyms |

Monument is a synonym of tombstone.


As nouns the difference between monument and tombstone

is that monument is monument while tombstone is a headstone marking the person's grave.

As a verb tombstone is

(surfing) for a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because the surfer is underwater with his or her legrope pulled tight often this indicates a surfer in difficulty, either held down by the power of a wave or unconscious and unable to get to the surface.

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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    tombstone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A headstone marking the person's grave.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
    • True, there's no harm in crying for one's husband, and the tombstone , though plain, was a solid piece of work, and on summer's days when the widow brought her boys to stand there one felt kindly towards her.
  • (mathematics) The symbol "" marking the end of a proof.

    • Synonyms

    * headstone, gravestone * (mathematics ) halmos

    See also

    * through-stone

    Verb

    (tombston)
  • (surfing) For a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because the surfer is underwater with his or her legrope pulled tight. Often this indicates a surfer in difficulty, either held down by the power of a wave or unconscious and unable to get to the surface.
  • * 2005 , Bruce Jenkins, Surfer magazine, (referring to Kelly Slater) [http://surfermag.com/features/events/mav05/]:
    • Before the contest even started, Slater went down hard in a warmup session. He took a two-wave hold-down in the semifinals, his board tombstoning eerily for all to see,