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Nouns (6)

monument

n. an important site that is marked and preserved as public property

Monument

n. [any construction built in commemoration of a person or an event]

repository, monument

n. a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

memorial, monument

n. a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

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Fuzzynyms (12)

statue

n. a sculpture representing a human or animal

obelisk

n. a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top

crypt

n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

mausoleum

n. a large burial chamber, usually above ground

shrine

n. a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person

rock 'n' roll, rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll, rock and roll, rock, rock music

n. a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."

marker

n. some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something; "the buoys were markers for the channel"

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