defined
- Monument
- n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
- The bones of Agammemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument,
- but Agammemnon’s fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments “to the unknown dead” — that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory.