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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 landmark designation, 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
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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 ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
Check back for more photos, including drone views, as one L.A. landmark makes way for another.
A relative’s house, friends’ houses, shops, landmarks — there was almost nothing left to navigate by.
The developer then launched a $50-million makeover of the property, built in 1947 and designated a historic landmark in Santa Monica, to turn it into a destination office project supported by restaurants or stores.
Although the streets are all still there, the only physical landmark of note that remains in the defunct neighborhood is the historic water tower itself.
Then he came across a picture of Sagaing's Ava Bridge – a local landmark – lying in mangled ruins in the Irrawaddy River.
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