national monument
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- noun
- /ˈnæʃənl ˈmɒnəmənt/
- Devils Tower, Wyoming was the first national monument erected in this country by Theodore Roosevelt in 1915.
- designated a national monument
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Examples
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As the new Federal Minister for National Monuments, I would just like to say that places like the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, in fact, all our national monuments, will be protected vigorously by my ministry.
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On this date in 1908, the Grand Canyon was dedicated as a national monument.
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Get the government to make the property a national monument at the taxpayers' expense.
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Two years later, the trustees, threatened by property taxes, gave the land to the federal government as a national monument.
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Congress passed amendments preventing an expansion of oil and gas drilling in national monument areas off the Florida Gulf Coast and in the Great Lakes.
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Devils Tower, Wyoming was the first national monument erected in this country by Theodore Roosevelt in 1915.
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Discusses a nearly 30-square-mile region of sand dunes in south-central Colorado that was designated a national monument in 1932 and a park in 2004.
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Subsequent jockeying among private landowners, local businesses, timber interests, government, environmentalists, and scientists created the 43,300-hectare MSH national monument, administered by the US Forest Service and preserved for research and low-impact recreation.
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The area known as Bears Ears, near Blanding, Utah, was designated a national monument by President Barack Obama.
Synonyms
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A structure like a statue that reminds people of an important person or event
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A large structure that honours a famous person or important event
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'national' (relating to the nation or national government) modifies 'monument' (a commemorative structure), so a B1 learner who knows both words will infer a monument associated with the nation or designated/managed at the national level. This adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, making the phrase immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
National monument comes from two simple ideas: monument is a building, statue, or special place made to remember an important person or event, and national means the whole country chooses it. So a national monument is a place the government keeps safe and open for everyone to visit and to 'remember' history.