Monumental - English meaning

adjective

Used or intended to publicly acknowledge a significant or happy day or event.

Usage examples:

The guest of honour at a celebratory dinner

adjective

Celebrating an important event or a special occasion

Usage examples:

When we heard she'd got the job, we all went off for a celebratory drink.

adjective

Extremely large or great.

Usage examples:

A colossal amount of mail

adjective

Extremely large

Usage examples:

In the centre of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold., they were a…

verb

Recall and show respect for (someone or something).

Usage examples:

A wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the war dead

verb

Present participle of commemorate

verb

To remember officially and give respect to a great person or event, especially by a public ceremony or by making a statue or special building

Usage examples:

Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the war., a stat…

adjective

Acting as a memorial of an event or person.

Usage examples:

A commemorative plaque

noun

An object such as a stamp or coin made to mark an event or honour a person.

Usage examples:

There are two types of postage stamps: definitives and commemoratives.

adjective

Done or made to officially remember and give respect to a great person or event

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A commemorative statue/stamp/service/plaque, instead of tickets, they gave out commemorative coffee…

adjective

Very large in size, quantity, or extent.

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Enormous sums of money

adjective

Extremely large or great

Usage examples:

He ate an enormous helping of pasta., the wealthy will get enormous tax cuts under the proposal.

adjective

Extremely large

Usage examples:

An enormous car/house, he earns an enormous salary., i was absolutely enormous when i was pregnant.…

adjective

Unusual; not typical.

Usage examples:

Late claims will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances

noun

An item in a company's accounts arising from its normal activity but much larger or smaller than usual.

Usage examples:

This drop in operating profit caused pre-tax profit before accounting for exceptionals to fall from…

adjective

Not like most others of the same type; unusual

Usage examples:

This is an exceptional contract, guaranteeing no layoffs., davis has done an exceptional job of rep…

adjective

Very unusual or remarkable.

Usage examples:

The extraordinary plumage of the male

noun

An item in a company's accounts not arising from its normal activities.

Usage examples:

Of the total "army extraordinaries" of £315,917 submitted to the house of commons on february 6, 17…

adjective

Very unusual and special; different in type or greater in degree than the usual or ordinary

Usage examples:

Being chairman gave him an extraordinary sense of power., she was an extraordinary woman, and no on…

adjective

Relating to a funeral or the commemoration of the dead.

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Funerary ceremonies

adjective

Used at or relating to funerals (= ceremonies for burying or burning the dead)

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Funerary rituals/rites, a traditional funerary mask

adjective

Enormous.

Usage examples:

A gargantuan appetite

adjective

Very large

Usage examples:

He has a gargantuan ego.

adjective

Of very great size or extent; huge or enormous.

Usage examples:

A gigantic concrete tower

adjective

Extremely large

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A gigantic shopping center

adjective

Extremely large

Usage examples:

Billie ate his way through a ginormous ice cream sundae.

adjective

Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average.

Usage examples:

The article was of great interest

noun

An important or distinguished person.

Usage examples:

The beatles, bob dylan, all the greats

adverb

Another term for literae humaniores.

adjective

Requiring great strength or effort.

Usage examples:

A herculean task

adjective

Having or needing great strength or effort

Usage examples:

She had the herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly.

adjective

Extremely large; enormous.

Usage examples:

A huge area

adjective

Extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.

Usage examples:

The cost of restoration has been immense

adjective

Extremely large; great in size or degree

Usage examples:

He inherited an immense fortune., did you see that guy? he was immense!, country music is immensely…

noun

A large extinct elephant of the pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks.

Usage examples:

Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the pleistocene to the early holocene period fro…

adjective

Huge.

Usage examples:

A mammoth corporation

adjective

Extremely large

Usage examples:

Building the dam was a mammoth construction project.

adjective

Large and heavy or solid.

Usage examples:

A massive rampart of stone

noun

A group of young people from a particular area with a common interest in dance music.

Usage examples:

The bristol massive

adjective

Very large in size, amount, or degree

Usage examples:

A massive building, he took massive doses of vitamin c., she died of a massive heart attack.

noun

A statue or structure established to remind people of a person or event.

Usage examples:

A memorial to general robert e. lee

noun

An object made in order to honor a person or event

Usage examples:

The statue is a memorial to those who died in the war.

adjective

Possessing great and impressive power or strength, especially because of size.

Usage examples:

Three mighty industrial countries

adverb

Extremely.

Usage examples:

My ears got cold mighty fast

adjective

Very large, powerful, or important

Usage examples:

In the next game they will face the mighty patriots., the mighty river po, they offered to raise sa…

adjective

Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

Usage examples:

The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel

adjective

Extremely great in ability, amount, or strength

Usage examples:

Americans are the world’s most prodigious consumers., a prodigiously gifted artist

adjective

Deeply shocking; astonishing.

Usage examples:

The staggering bills for maintenance and repair

verb

Walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall.

Usage examples:

He staggered to his feet, swaying a little

adjective

Extremely impressive.

Usage examples:

The most stupendous views

adjective

Very great in amount or size

Usage examples:

He ran up stupendous debts.

adjective

Extremely bad or serious.

Usage examples:

A terrible crime

adjective

Of exceptional strength, size, or power.

Usage examples:

A series of titanic explosions

adjective

Of titanium with a valency of four; of titanium(iv).

Usage examples:

It has been permitted to form a joint venture for the manufacture of synthetic rutyl and titanic di…

proper noun

A british passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when she was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the north atlantic on her maiden voyage in april 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives.

adjective

Very great in amount, scale, or intensity.

Usage examples:

Penny put in a tremendous amount of time

adjective

Great in amount, size, or degree; extremely large

Usage examples:

She is under tremendous pressure at work., a tremendous book/concert/athlete

adjective

Of very great extent or quantity; immense.

Usage examples:

A vast plain full of orchards

noun

An immense space.

Usage examples:

And up from the vast a murmuring passed as from a wood of pines.