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WASHINGTON MONUMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington; 555 feet tall
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)
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