Other forms: monuments
A monument is a structure built so that an important person or event is never forgotten. A war monument, a national monument, raise a monument.
Who gets one and who does not is always a political question, which is why removing them causes such argument. An ancient monument is a legally protected site. The Latin monere means to remind, which is also behind monitor.
1nounmonumentA structure built to keep a person or event in memory.
“A stone monument in the square honours the soldiers who died in the war.”
monument is a structure.
Also accepted in games: memorial
Latin monumentum comes from monere, to remind. Monitor and admonish come from the same reminding.
Proto-Indo-European
*men- (think)
Latin
monumentum — memorial, monument, tomb
Old French
monument
Middle English
monument
English, today
monument
Built from
From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”). Partially displaced Old English bēacn.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA