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WASHINGTON MONUMENT

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• WASHINGTON MONUMENT (noun)
The noun WASHINGTON MONUMENT has 1 sense:

1. a tall stone obelisk in Washington honoring George Washington

Familiarity information: WASHINGTON MONUMENT used as a noun is very rare.

• WASHINGTON MONUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A tall stone obelisk in Washington honoring George Washington

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

memorial; monument (a structure erected to commemorate persons or events)

obelisk (a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top)

Holonyms ("Washington Monument" is a part of...):

American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C. (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791)

"It ain't over till it's over."
(English proverb)
"You must first walk around a bit before you can understand the distance from the valley to the mountain."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"Don't count the teeth of a gift horse."
(Armenian proverb)
"A good dog gets a good bone."
(Corsican proverb)

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Meaning of obelisk
Meaning of capital of the United States
Meaning of Washington D.C.
Meaning of Washington
Pronunciation of memorial

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