landmark
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈlændˌmɑrk/
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- This is a key, a landmark ruling for gay and transgender individuals.
- became a landmark
- landmark case
- important landmark
They wrote and I quote these landmark achievements are rarely the work of one individual.
- They wrote and I quote these landmark achievements are rarely the work of one individual.
- My first time on the bus is like a landmark in my mind for when things started.
- Once it's officially public and it's been a landmark antitrust lawsuit, it's again been slapped against Google by the DOJ.
- And a temporal landmark is something that gives you for a moment, a break from the past.
- Last week I called out Sal Gentile and said he was wrong in his interpretation of the landmark Supreme Court case Marbury V Madison.
- The grave implications of courting Death are nowhere more harrowingly and humanely explored than in Carroll and Jordan Stryker's landmark work.
- That is their study, landmark study being done last January, published.
Examples
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It's a landmark event in our psyche.
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For many Iranians, it is as much of an attitude-shaping historical landmark as the hostage crisis is for Americans.
Academic text (2013) -
My first time on the bus is like a landmark in my mind for when things started.
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It's one of the great Civil Rights landmarks of the South.
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Similarly, the 2005 presidential election is a vital landmark event in the progression of the democratic process.
Academic text (2007) -
Writing my own article for the EB was a psychological landmark; it gave me a voice of my own.
Academic text (1998) -
Their book, Deep South, is a quietly revolutionary landmark experiment in interracial scholarship.
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The year 1963 was a very important landmark in the development of rehabilitation-related professions in this country.
Academic text (1995) -
Herbie Hancock's presence here today establishes a landmark in the history of these lectures.
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Looking back, the 1982 Economic Report was a landmark in U.S. economic policy.
Synonyms
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3.7
A moment when an important event changes what happens next
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3.2
An important event that shows progress in a person's life or project
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5.8
An important event or time that marks a big change
A time when an important change happens in a story or process
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Landmark is also used for an important event because a mark can mean 'to show a point', like a sign on a map of time. So a landmark event is a clear turning point that people use to understand history or progress.