landmark

Speech parts

1. landmark - Noun

2. landmark - Verb

Meaning

A mark to designate the boundary of land; any, mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

watershed turning point monument marker milestone reference point memorial observatory mark poi cheviot tower beacon cairn promontory
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Antonyms

common conventional everyday modest chronic customary
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Hypernyms

place position structure reference occasion juncture

Hyponyms

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Phrases with the word

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Anagrams

markland

Examples

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run. Barry Eichengreen

The most advanced socialist thought in England is Raymond Williams' superbly intricate and persuasive work... Any English Marxism will have to measure itself against this landmark in our social thought. Perry Anderson

The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the "Alt-Right." A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party. Hillary Clinton

During his long tenure in the Supreme Court, he was a party to and author of a number of landmark judgments. Mohammad Hidayatullah

Whereas, our tenet ever was, and, indeed, it is almost the only landmark which now divides the federalists from the republicans, that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated;... Thomas Jefferson

A landmark is very well placed between the fields of two brothers. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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