Noun

(en-plural noun)

What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.

The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.

Historical or archaeological relics.

(senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.

All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

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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).