1. monument - Noun
2. monument - Verb
Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
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.
A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThose only deserve a monument who do not need one. William Hazlitt
I have made a monument more lasting than bronze. Horace
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. António Lobo Antunes
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things - the job, the house, the this, the that - do not really fill the place inside. Robertson Davies
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. Roger Zelazny
Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind. William Butler Yeats