Crossword clues for landmark
landmark
- With model after love at first sight
- Significant feature or event
- Washington Monument, e.g
- Sightseeing stop
- Historical turning point
- Significant feature (or event)
- Sightseers' stop
- Historical building
- Golden Gate Bridge or Mount Rushmore, e.g
- Easily recognized feature, like the Washington Monument or the Brooklyn Bridge
- Acquire slugger McGwire?
- The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
- An event marking a unique or important historical change or one on which important developments depend
- A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
- An anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
- Kind of decision
- Monument, for instance
- Mariner's guide
- Miss Liberty, to a sailor, e.g.
- Conspicuous feature of terrain
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landmark \Land"mark`\, n. [AS. landmearc. See Land, and Mark a sign.]
A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.
Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.
A structure that has special significance, such as a building with historical associations; especially, a building that is protected from destruction or alteration by special laws intended to preserve structures of historical significance; as, a landmark preservation law.
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An event or accomplishment of great significance; as, Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark of the civil rights movement. Also used attributively, as a landmark court decision.
Landmarks of history, important events by which eras or conditions are determined.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English landmearc, from land (n.) + mearc (see mark (n.1)). Originally "object set up to mark the boundaries of a kingdom, estate, etc.;" general sense of "conspicuous object in a landscape" is from 1560s. Modern figurative sense of "event, etc., considered a high point in history" is from 1859.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation. 2 A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance. 3 A major, important event. vb. (context US English) To officially designate a site or building as a landmark.
WordNet
n. the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark"
an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend; "the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations" [syn: turning point, watershed]
a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
Wikipedia
A landmark is a notable geographical feature or building.
Landmark or landmarks may also refer to:
landmark is Salyu's debut album. She previously released the album Kokyuu under the name Lily Chou-Chou.
A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances.
In modern use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures or features, that have become local or national symbols.
Landmark is a Canadian current affairs television series which aired on CBC Television in 1970.
Landmark is the seventh studio album by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation, released on September 12, 2012.
Landmark PLC is a serviced office provider based in London. , Landmark operates five serviced offices totalling 145,756 square feet and providing 1,935 workstations.
Landmark is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Daybreak Game Company for Microsoft Windows. The original name of the game was EverQuest Next Landmark, but was switched to simply Landmark in March 2014. The game was released on June 10, 2016.
Usage examples of "landmark".
The Sahara, the landmark, the Americana and the ominous Thunderbird -- a cluster of grey rectangles in the distance, rising out of the cactus.
For one thing, the more dangerous predators were aprowl during the reign of darkness, and, as well, in the gloom that shrouded the world of giant trees after sunfall, traveling should be much more difficult, for it was easier to miss your landmarks and go astray.
A 1998 landmark study found that the use of tamoxifen in such women, who have no cancer but a family history of cancer or precancerous lesions, reduces the rate of expected breast cancers by 45 percent.
The fast-food joint became a landmark when the pony ride that had occupied the corner of La Cienega and Beverly for decades was replaced by the neon-and-concrete assault known as the Beverly Center.
In the flat distance, the most prominent landmark of Baikonur Cosmodrome showed-a gantry complex of squat, girdered towers.
Wednesday after my great sermon, which is now a respectable landmark, or datemark, at Kilronan, I got the first letter from Bittra.
By: Kim Isaac Eisler Category: nonfiction biography Synopsis: A biography of one of the greatest Supreme Court Justices of this century explores his role in landmark decisions on pornography, libel, desegregation, search and seizure, and legislative redistricting.
John and Mel the cameraman parked their white NewsSix fastback in one of the press stalls behind the capitol building and started across the vast lawns of the Capitol Plaza toward the Executive Offices, a four-story, marble-and-concrete complex that faced the capitol and emulated the classic architecture of the landmarks around it.
As there were no landmarks, we had to indicate the position of our depots by flags, which were posted at a distance of about four miles to the east and west.
Ill weather was nothing to one nourished among Hebridean north-westers, but he cursed a land in which there were no landmarks.
The homunculus moved more slowly this time, but still too fast for her to fix on any definite landmarks.
When they arrived at production headquarters at the GulfStream Hotel, a faded tourist landmark from an earlier era overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, Marley immediately impressed the crew by jumping out of the truck and tearing around the parking lot in random patterns as if expecting the aerial bombing to commence at any moment.
From then on, it was just a question of hanging on to the wheel with one hand, trying to secure the free-traversing twin-fifty with the other, glancing back to see if the jaygee was still out, avoidingyapping dogs and pedestrians, staying on the rutted road, pushing all the possible speed out of the jeep, noting landmarks, and estimating the possibility of dangerous pursuit.
So, every day or so, my father and uncle would get out our copy of the Kitab and, only after deliberation and consultation and final agreement, they would inscribe upon it the symbols for mountains and rivers and towns and deserts and other such landmarks.
He may have thought his small command had made a dangerous mistake, lost in the brush perhaps, seeking out some landmark, some direction, and stumbled into the lines of the enemy.