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landmark
[ land-mahrk ]
noun
- a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location:
The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- something used to mark the boundary of land.
- a building or other place that is of outstanding historical, aesthetic, or cultural importance, often declared as such and given a special status landmark designation, ordaining its preservation, by some authorizing organization.
- a significant or historic event, juncture, achievement, etc.:
The court decision stands as a landmark in constitutional law.
Synonyms: , ,
verb (used with object)
- to declare (a building, site, etc.) a landmark:
a movement to landmark New York's older theaters.
landmark
/ ˈæԻˌɑː /
noun
- a prominent or well-known object in or feature of a particular landscape
- an important or unique decision, event, fact, discovery, etc
- a boundary marker or signpost
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·Իm adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
In his landmark broadcast he included the words: "This day at Belsen was the most horrible of my life."
"The landmark building offers the opportunity to create a 'key leisure venue which will add value to Gorleston's tourist offering' once it has been refurbished and redeveloped."
The DWP is planning to renovate its historic landmark headquarters on Bunker Hill and needs about 300,000 square feet to move into while the work gets done, he said.
To some this is considered a back door way of transforming the landmark Curriculum for Excellence without actually admitting it did not achieve what was intended.
The group’s 1978 LP, “The Modern Dance,” was a landmark of post-punk and new wave ambition that arrived just as punk itself crested in the U.S.
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