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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
landmark
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a landmark case (=one that established a principle for the first time)
▪ a landmark case about copyright protection for computer software
famous landmark (=a famous place or building that is easy to recognize)
▪ The Eiffel Tower is a famous landmark.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
familiar
▪ Shops were dark, cold and uninviting. Familiar landmarks, like the neons of theatres and cinemas, disappeared.
▪ In the movie business, such voyages are usually package tours -- rushed itineraries, familiar landmarks, superficial observations.
▪ Hospital goes: A familiar landmark in Hartlepool has been reduced to a pile of rubble by bulldozers.
▪ The awkward biped stood and looked out over the tops of the grass at a landscape empty of familiar landmarks.
▪ For older people, the familiar landmarks of their lives have been bulldozed, leaving them bewildered and uncertain.
▪ He looked down at London, searching for the tall familiar landmark, his eyes glazed but still seeing.
▪ They were further into the forest than she had ever been before. Familiar landmarks had already disappeared.
▪ A popular rendezvous and a familiar landmark with its prominent clock tower.
famous
▪ His move secures the 14 jobs at the site and keeps the famous A3 landmark alive.
▪ The island looms larger until we sight its famous landmark, the Abbey - grey, formidable, not at all picturesque.
▪ What famous landmarks will you pass?
▪ For he is responsible for maintaining the sophisticated plumbing system inside the famous landmark.
▪ The century-old tower, one of Middlesbrough's most famous landmarks, is crumbling and needs more than £40,000-worth of repair work.
▪ Read in studio One of the region's most famous landmarks is celebrating its five hundredth birthday.
historic
▪ Our man at the Yard Historic landmark buildings loom large in Geoff Lewry's life.
▪ They organized quickly, and had the Tiradito Wishing Shrine declared a national historic landmark.
▪ Nelson, historic landmarks from the early days of the fur-trader, the gold miner and the explorer.
▪ It would neither be the subject of uninformed scandal, nor slated to become a national historic landmark in our city.
▪ Washington the home town and Washington the historic landmark are physically the same but logistically, legally and pragmatically separate entities.
important
▪ To a sports fanatic like me, the Maracana would be as important a landmark as Sugar Loaf Mountain.
▪ The next important landmark comes with a 7.6 % swing.
▪ The birth of a child is an important landmark in the lives of all concerned.
▪ The total project cost was over £1.5 million - money well spent to secure the future of this important Paisley landmark.
local
▪ Another listed building is the fine windmill which stands on the hill above the village and makes an outstanding local landmark.
▪ Downtown News editorial staff a behind-the-scenes look at what will be a major new local landmark.
▪ Learned local landmarks are a feasible means to navigation in a local, familiar area.
▪ Select a local landmark on a 250,000 scale map and draw in the correct quadrant.
▪ It is owned by the National Trust and is a permanent local landmark.
major
▪ Many of these are major landmarks rising high above surrounding houses, but often they are far too large for present congregations.
▪ Downtown News editorial staff a behind-the-scenes look at what will be a major new local landmark.
▪ The major landmark is, perhaps, the foundation of the Royal Society of London in 1660.
▪ They lounge outside the major landmarks including the entrances to the parliament building.
new
▪ Downtown News editorial staff a behind-the-scenes look at what will be a major new local landmark.
■ NOUN
decision
▪ In a landmark decision, the U. S. Supreme Court disagreed.
■ VERB
become
▪ It has become a landmark not only for Palomar College but also for pilots using Palomar-McClellan Airport.
▪ It would neither be the subject of uninformed scandal, nor slated to become a national historic landmark in our city.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a landmark court victory
▪ Getting my first part in a movie was a major landmark in my life.
▪ The Washington Monument is a popular historical landmark.
▪ This new drug is a landmark in the treatment of cancer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landmark

Landmark \Land"mark`\, n. [AS. landmearc. See Land, and Mark a sign.]

  1. 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.

  2. Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

  3. 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.

  4. 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
landmark

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
landmark

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
landmark
  1. n. the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark"

  2. 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]

  3. a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land

  4. 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
Landmark (disambiguation)

A landmark is a notable geographical feature or building.

Landmark or landmarks may also refer to:

Landmark (Salyu album)

landmark is Salyu's debut album. She previously released the album Kokyuu under the name Lily Chou-Chou.

Landmark

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 (TV series)

Landmark is a Canadian current affairs television series which aired on CBC Television in 1970.

Landmark (Asian Kung-Fu Generation album)

Landmark is the seventh studio album by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation, released on September 12, 2012.

Landmark (company)

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 (video game)

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.