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Memorial :: Memorial (n.) Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

Monument :: Monument (n.) A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary..

Effigy :: Effigy (n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits..

Record :: Record (v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

Vandal :: Vandal (n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature..

Menhir :: Menhir (n.) A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe..

Cromlech :: Cromlech (n.) A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries..

Stupa :: Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.

Stele :: Stela (n.) A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc..

Cross :: Cross (n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London..

Moniment :: Moniment (n.) Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record..

Trilithon :: Trilithon (n.) A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts..

Sacellum :: Sacellum (n.) A small monumental chapel in a church.

Monument :: Monument (n.) Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial..

Mausolean :: Mausolean (a.) Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.

Imperishable :: Imperishable (a.) Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown..

Kistvaen :: Kistvaen (n.) A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen..

Greyhound :: Greyhound (n.) A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments..

Lotus :: Lotus (n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments..

Pillar :: Pillar (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament..

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