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noun(mon-u-ment)a burial vault : sepulchre
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noun(mon-u-ment)a written legal document or record : treatise
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noun(mon-u-ment)a lasting evidence, reminder, or example of someone or something notable or great
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geographical name(mon-u-ment)region containing red sandstone buttes, mesas, and arches of northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah
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noun(mon-u-ment)a place of historic, scenic, or scientific interest set aside for preservation usually by presidential proclamation
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geographical name(mon-u-ment)site in lower Manhattan, New York City, where free and enslaved Africans were buried in the late 17th and 18th centuries
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geographical name(mon-u-ment)reservation along the Niobrara River in western Nebraska
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geographical name(mon-u-ment)archaeological site in northern Texas northeast of Amarillo
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geographical name(mon-u-ment)site of a prehistoric pueblo in northwestern New Mexico northeast of Farmington
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geographical name(mon-u-ment)reservation in north central New Mexico west of Santa Fe containing cliff-dweller ruins
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geographical name(mon-u-ment)birthplace and childhood home of American educator Booker T. Washington in west central Virginia southeast of Roanoke
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geographical name(mon-u-ment)area of coral reefs surrounding Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands of the U.S.