Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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monument

UK /ˈmɒnjʊmənt/ · US /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms monuments monumenting monumented

  1. noun A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration. “There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.”
  2. noun An important site owned by the community as a whole.
  3. noun (UK) a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
  4. noun A sign of exceptional achievement.
  5. noun An important burial vault or tomb.
  6. noun Any grave marker.
  7. noun A legal document.
  8. noun A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
  9. verb (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.
  10. verb (transitive) To place a surveyor's monument at.
  11. proper noun A town in El Paso County, Colorado.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Logan County, Kansas.
  13. proper noun A census-designated place in Lea County, New Mexico.
  14. proper noun A minor city in Grant County, Oregon.
  15. proper noun A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
  16. noun (cycling) Any of the five most prestigious men's one-day road cycling races: Milan–San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, Liege–Bastogne–Liege and Giro di Lombardia.

Synonyms

memorial repository

Etymology

From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”).
Partially displaced Old English bēacn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
  2. 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.

Etymology [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to remind, admonish. See Monition, and cf. Moniment.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “monument”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “monument” (best matches first).