noun a saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
2. monument ·noun something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
3. monument ·noun a stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
4. monument ·noun 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.