(n.) Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
(n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.
(n.) A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
(n.) A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Nelson Monument and other sites (0131-226 6558), 2 August–2 September.
(2) They killed monuments, changed them, reappropriated them.
(3) It offers us a new start, and a far more hopeful future.” The first minister, Peter Robinson , described the deal as a “monumental step forward” for Northern Ireland.
(4) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
(5) The National Heritage Memorial Fund found a further £10m and the National Galleries of Scotland £4.6m, with £2m from the Monument Trust and £1m from the Art Fund, while members of the public and private donors gave another £7.4m.
(6) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(7) The club has completely adopted all of KSÍ’s infrastructure improvements and become, in the process, a monument to Iceland’s soccer revolution.
(8) But within a few kilometres of these monuments to tyranny stand symbols of renewal – rows of solar panels bringing stable electricity to the homes of local people for the first time – and with them the chance of improving their lives.
(9) And yet I sense a crumbling of the monumental Boris facade, the great artificial construct designed to make him prime minister, for reasons I have never understood.
(10) (Britain's Monument Valley by UsTwo shows on the screen.)
(11) For a team of this ability to play so well and lose 4-1 shows what a monumental effort it was from Chelsea.
(12) But if Johnson's monuments suffer from the columnist's love of making a splash, his mayoralty has been more impressive when it comes to things that are barely visible, or about taking stuff away rather than adding it.
(13) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
(14) But Marc Ostwald at Monument Securities took a more sceptical view and said there were plenty of reasons not to chase the gilt "relief rally".
(15) The parade passes the 2,248-room Trump Taj Mahal, another monument to the good times.
(16) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(17) This is a change of monumental proportions both in the law and in the role of doctors; it is little wonder that it is opposed by the medical profession.
(18) Memorial began by erecting a monument in 1990 dedicated to the victims of political repression.
(19) Fullerton says there is great potential ahead if society can change its collective mindset: “This is a monumental challenge that holds the promise of uniting our generation in a shared purpose.
(20) John Madelin, CEO at RelianceACSN and a former vice president responsible for the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, said: “We thought the previous breach of 500 million user accounts was huge, but 1 billion is monumental.” Tyler Moffitt, senior threat research analyst at Webroot, said: “All of the data stolen, including emails, passwords and security questions, make a potent package for identify theft.
Parthenon
Definition:
(n.) A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
(2) The comments, which follow Clooney's repeated claims over the past week that Britain should return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, were reportedly made in Milan at a press event during which the film's cast posed in front of the famed Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece The Last Supper.
(3) One is that Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century, denuded the Parthenon of much of its sculpture immorally, or even illicitly.
(4) I won't dilate too much about the experience of seeing the marbles close up, which is something the ancient Greeks never did, because they were placed high on the Parthenon, but what is moving is the human detail of the sculptures – the snapshots of people turning round to see what's going on, struggling with a bullock that is about to get loose, and men expiring at the hooves of centaurs.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sir Richard Lambert, chairman of the British Museum Trustees, poses next to the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum, London.
(6) Price said the issue was timely because the Greeks are preparing for the official opening in June of a new €129m Acropolis museum to showcase the Parthenon sculptures.
(7) DEBT MARKET TERMS An EU flag flies over the temple of Parthenon on Acropolis hill in Athens.
(8) It is these statues, once known as the Elgin marbles now as the Parthenon marbles , that have caused bitter controversy for 200 years.
(9) Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer, has said it is only prudent that Greece seeks legal advice in its attempt to reclaim the Parthenon marbles from the British Museum , but hopes an amicable solution can be found to the decades-long dispute.
(10) In my view returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece is the just thing to do,” said Clooney on the first day of a three-day visit to Athens in which she held talks with the Greek culture minister to discuss the country’s legal options.
(11) Today, in the midst of those efforts, we learn that the British Museum has decided to loan Russia part of its hotly contested property, the Parthenon marbles, also known as the Elgin marbles.
(12) Desperate to lure outsiders to this far-flung, sparsely populated region, officials have ordered the construction of a replica of the Great Sphinx of Egypt ; the Parthenon ; Beijing’s Summer Palace and Forbidden City, and even of a stretch of the Great Wall of China.
(13) Designed by Pericles's master sculptor, Phidias, the marbles were part of a monumental frieze that adorned the Parthenon.
(14) From the Parthenon to the Hill of Pnyx, these crop up unannounced on street corners in Athens the way shops do in other cities.
(15) The actor-director's initial comments about the Parthenon marbles came at the Berlin film festival on Saturday while promoting The Monuments Men , the story of an Allied team trying to save art from the Nazis.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest One of the Parthenon marbles sculptures at the British Museum.
(17) "Prime minister, history and future generations will honour you, as will Greece, if you take that one small but monumental step of amending the 1933 Museums Act to allow for the return of the Parthenon sculptures," said his open letter.
(18) She has started work on her latest case , in which she is advising Greece on a bid to have the Parthenon marbles, currently in the British Museum, returned to the country.
(19) Those photographs from Greece last week sent me straight round to the chief site of that abuse, the Duveen Gallery at the British Museum , where the Parthenon marbles are displayed and there are as many diaphanously clothed virgins as you would wish to clap eyes on.
(20) In loaning the Parthenon marbles statue of Ilissos to Russia ( Loan shatters Elgin marbles claim, says Athens , 6 December), the British Museum has acted insensitively and foolishly.