monument
structure that preserves memory
Root
- mon: warn, remind, advise
Other words with the mon root
- admonish: to warn or correct firmly
- admonition: a warning or cautionary rebuke
- monitor: watcher or warner
- monitory: giving warning or admonition
- premonition: a warning feeling before something happens
- premonitory: giving advance warning
- summon: to call forth or order to appear
A monument reminds: stone made into memory.
The monument turned a forgotten battle into something the city had to remember.
Memory gets a body in stone or bronze.