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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
monumental
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a huge/monumental error (=very serious)
▪ It was a monumental error to attack from the north.
monumental sculpture (=built as a monument)
▪ the monumental sculpture of ancient Greece
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sculpture
▪ It is, however, for his accomplished monumental sculpture that William Stanton is best known.
▪ Eighty-six ceramic works, ranging from dinner plates to monumental sculptures, which Miró realised with the collaboration of Josep Artigas.
▪ Made of bronze, brass and stainless steel, it is the artist's largest, most monumental sculpture to date.
task
▪ Those are monumental tasks, but they are imaginative ones.
▪ It is a monumental task, performed through thousands upon thousands of finicky observations and measurements.
▪ If you don't know who that audience is then you really do have a monumental task in front of you.
▪ This isn't such a monumental task but for the arrival of another 150,000 visitors who have exactly the same plans!
work
▪ It's a truly monumental work, at an unbeatable price.
▪ Five more years would see the publication of the first volume of the most monumental work the Galaxy had ever conceived.
▪ The standard has been set by Penny's monumental work, and he is to be heartily congratulated for his achievement.
▪ It is a monumental work, the two movements staking up 50 minutes of beautiful music of true Tchaikovsky tunefulness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a monumental temple
▪ Darwin published his monumental work on evolution in 1859.
▪ It was a monumental task.
▪ The concert was a monumental embarrassment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time, a monumental struggle was going on in the state and federal courts.
▪ But what a monumental place in the history of publicity she has.
▪ He was also in the huge orchestra which recorded and toured performing Charles Mingus's monumental composition Epitaph.
▪ Nor will it suffice simply to survey the mass of habits and rituals involved in the monumental institution of the Empire.
▪ Of course, the statue of Michael Jackson, too, is a monumental advertising campaign.
▪ The costs, of course, were monumental.
▪ The Foreign Secretary opened his speech by referring to the monumental events that now surround us.
▪ The pharaohs lived in mud palaces but were buried in monumental stone edifices.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monumental

Monumental \Mon`u*men"tal\, a. [L. monumentalis: cf. F. monumental.]

  1. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.

  2. Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory. ``Of pine, or monumental oak.''
    --Milton.

    A work outlasting monumental brass.
    --Pope.

  3. Of lasting significance; as, a monumental work of literature; a monumental accomplishment.

  4. Exceptionally large in quantity, quality, or degree; as, a monumental amount of work to be done

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
monumental

c.1600, "pertaining to a monument," from Late Latin monumentalis "pertaining to a monument," from monumentum (see monument). From 1650s in the loose sense of "vast, stupendous." Related: Monumentally.

Wiktionary
monumental

a. 1 In the manner of a monument. 2 large, grand and imposing. Fitting to be a monument to someone or something. 3 Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete.

WordNet
monumental
  1. adj. relating or belonging to or serving as a monument; "the use of the arch in monumental architecture"; "monumental sculptures"

  2. of outstanding significance; "Einstein's monumental contributions to physics"

  3. imposing in size or bulk or solidity; "massive oak doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental scale" [syn: massive, monolithic]

Wikipedia
Monumental

Monumental, the adjective form of the noun, monument, may refer to:

Monumental (album)

Monumental, is a collaborative studio album by American rap group Smif-N-Wessun and producer/rapper Pete Rock, released on June 28, 2011. On April 1, 2011, Duck Down Records, the album's responsible record label, released a trailer through their official YouTube account. The album has received positive feedback from fans, and is highly anticipated since the idea became public in 2010. "Monumental" features appearances from Raekwon, Styles P., Bun B., Memphis Bleek, Freeway, former Hit Squad member Hurricane G, and more.

Monumental (Barcelona Metro)

Monumental is the name of a station in the Barcelona Metro network. It takes its name from the former La Monumental bullring located in Eixample Dret, the northern part of the central Barcelona district of Eixample. It's served by L2 (purple line), and opened in 1995, along with the other stations of the first section of the line to be built (from Sant Antoni to Sagrada Família). It's situated under Carrer de la Marina between Consell de Cent and Diputació, and can be accessed from both sidewalks of Marina.

Usage examples of "monumental".

I closed my eyes and for an instant, half asleep, glimpsed rising before me the outline of Pontifex Hall framed in its monumental arch, the inscribed keystone above cast in shadow and maculated with moss and lichen, the words barely visible beneath.

I obeyed Mammy, skirted the market, and made my way to Monumental Church.

But I was leaning toward a conclusion that she had an overdetermined intellectual and professional arrogance that had been cemented by some monumental insecurity that she was struggling to tame as a lion tamer controls a big cat.

Petersburg, towering, monumental and inhuman, which the hero discovers when he tears himself away from the moist grip of the canals and, leaning on the parapet of a bridge, contemplates the broad panorama of the Neva stretching before his eyes.

Republicans permits only one narrow exception: When not defined by their monumental stupidity, Republicans must be scarily weird.

I tell just how and why Tillary Steevens was in reality no more than a fraud, a monumental fraud.

The tower itself was a monumental cylinder of pale pink plasti-glass, which thrust from the Earth like a raging stonker and buried its big knob end in the clouds.

Still stunned by the shock of monumental betrayal, Lirenda fought to muster a civilized response.

Monumental prototypes for the Tibetan terraced stupa have been excavated in Bengal and Bihar.

This monumental pile was Wentworth Hall, in which the Tellurian candidates for the Lens of the Galactic Patrol live and move and have their being.

A planet abides that life which accepts its whims, but man it rejects, man it seeks to obliterate, pitting the monumental force of its instability against that pitiful life form, driving man forth to seek the stars or die.

His wife, the lovely Queen Kaikilani Alii, had a nasty temper of her own, and the peace of the royal household was frequently shattered by monumental arguments.

Raymond Horgan, he exhibited monumental strength in reforming the office and especially in loosening the grip of the Police Force, with its political crosscurrents, over prosecutions.

It was like the eighth-grade dances she recalled in agonizing detail, the hour upon hour of sitting motionless against the wall, the muscles in her face aching from her monumental effort to keep on smiling as if she were having a good time.

Beyond the columns lay the choir enclosure and the high altar, with pyx and tabernacle, behind which towered a monumental downlighted crucifix.