Landmark
noun
A building, monument, or other structure that is famous and helps you know where you are.
The Eiffel Tower is a famous landmark in Paris.
Often appears as...
- historical landmark
- visit a landmark
noun
An important event, decision or achievement that marks a key point.
Getting admitted into college was a landmark achievement.
Often appears as...
- landmark decision
- landmark event
noun
An identifying feature on a landscape that helps in navigating or locating places.
The large volcano is a helpful landmark for sailors navigating the area.
Often appears as...
- natural landmark
- geographical landmark
noun
A building or area having legal protection because of its historical, architectural, or cultural value.
This building has been declared a landmark and protected from demolition.
Often appears as...
- heritage landmark
- protected landmark
noun
A point of reference for a measurement or comparison, especially in scientific research or social studies.
Her study serves as a landmark in the field of environmental science.
Often appears as...
- landmark study
- landmark research
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Formal
Academic
noun
A building, monument, or other structure that is famous and helps you know where you are.
The Eiffel Tower is a famous landmark in Paris.
Often appears as...
- historical landmark
- visit a landmark
noun
An important event, decision or achievement that marks a key point.
Getting admitted into college was a landmark achievement.
Often appears as...
- landmark decision
- landmark event
noun
An identifying feature on a landscape that helps in navigating or locating places.
The large volcano is a helpful landmark for sailors navigating the area.
Often appears as...
- natural landmark
- geographical landmark
noun
A building or area having legal protection because of its historical, architectural, or cultural value.
This building has been declared a landmark and protected from demolition.
Often appears as...
- heritage landmark
- protected landmark
noun
A point of reference for a measurement or comparison, especially in scientific research or social studies.
Her study serves as a landmark in the field of environmental science.
Often appears as...
- landmark study
- landmark research
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Famous Reference
A landmark can be a point of reference making a location easily recognizable.
Turn left at the landmark to reach the museum.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Landmarks often hold cultural importance and are widely known within a community.
The Statue of Liberty is more than a landmark; it's a symbol of freedom.
Pro Tip 3/3Tourist Attraction
Landmarks are popular places for tourists to visit due to their fame or beauty.
He's excited to see the landmarks during his trip to Rome.
Pro Tip 1/3Famous Reference
A landmark can be a point of reference making a location easily recognizable.
Turn left at the landmark to reach the museum.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Landmarks often hold cultural importance and are widely known within a community.
The Statue of Liberty is more than a landmark; it's a symbol of freedom.
Pro Tip 3/3Tourist Attraction
Landmarks are popular places for tourists to visit due to their fame or beauty.
He's excited to see the landmarks during his trip to Rome.
Pro Tip 1/3Famous Reference
A landmark can be a point of reference making a location easily recognizable.
Turn left at the landmark to reach the museum.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Landmarks often hold cultural importance and are widely known within a community.
The Statue of Liberty is more than a landmark; it's a symbol of freedom.
Pro Tip 3/3Tourist Attraction
Landmarks are popular places for tourists to visit due to their fame or beauty.
He's excited to see the landmarks during his trip to Rome.
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Kiran Bedi: How I remade...
because there was no budget of education for the prison. Now if I'd not done that, it would have been a hellhole. That's the second landmark. I want to show you some moments of history in my journey, which probably you would never ever get to see anywhere in the world. One, the numbers you'll never get to see.
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Who owns the "wilderness"...
over multiple government departments. Straightforward tasks like building roads and hiring personnel required inefficient bureaucratic maneuvering. None of the departments had set rules for conduct in the park, so hunters killed park wildlife, cattle overgrazed fields, and visitors vandalized landmarks.
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Fred Jansen: How to land...
normally done with spacecraft. Normally, you look at the sky and you know where you point and where you are. In this case, that's not enough. We navigated by looking at landmarks on the comet. We recognized features -- boulders, craters -- and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet.
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Symbiosis: A surprising...
They remember where all those seeds are. They even use landmarks on the landscape -- trees, stumps, rocks -- to triangulate to caches buried deep under the snow. What they don't go back and get, those seeds become whitebark. This symbiosis is so important to both species
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Isaac Lidsky: What...
and a landmark appears farther away if you're wearing a heavy backpack. We have arrived at a fundamental contradiction. What you see is a complex mental construction of your own making, but you experience it passively as a direct representation of the world around you.
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The Land of Pure Silence...
be able to say where you are relative to it if you're trying to use landmarks to navigate something like the mountains or the rocks and we're constantly trying to remember where we are because you're literally in a life raft and if anything
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Why the universe seems...
And that gives us a nice way to express our estimate of life's improbability. We could make some sort of landmark points along a spectrum of improbability, which might look like the electromagnetic spectrum we just looked at.
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The strange history of...
in a way that had never been seen before. He did this using brushes sometimes as tiny as a single badger hair. And by depicting details like Ghent landmarks, botanically identifiable flowers, and lifelike faces,
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Lessons we can learn...
been comparatively less attention paid to veterans who have found personal or professional success or those who are charting a path toward it we were motivated by a landmark survey of post
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Hammerhead Sharks Gather...
dots of land above the water becomes significant landmarks below these towering sea mounts attract fish in their millions deep ocean currents are forced to the surface bringing nutrients
Video examples
Kiran Bedi: How I remade...
because there was no budget of education for the prison. Now if I'd not done that, it would have been a hellhole. That's the second landmark. I want to show you some moments of history in my journey, which probably you would never ever get to see anywhere in the world. One, the numbers you'll never get to see.
Video examples
Who owns the "wilderness"...
over multiple government departments. Straightforward tasks like building roads and hiring personnel required inefficient bureaucratic maneuvering. None of the departments had set rules for conduct in the park, so hunters killed park wildlife, cattle overgrazed fields, and visitors vandalized landmarks.
Video examples
Fred Jansen: How to land...
normally done with spacecraft. Normally, you look at the sky and you know where you point and where you are. In this case, that's not enough. We navigated by looking at landmarks on the comet. We recognized features -- boulders, craters -- and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet.
Video examples
Symbiosis: A surprising...
They remember where all those seeds are. They even use landmarks on the landscape -- trees, stumps, rocks -- to triangulate to caches buried deep under the snow. What they don't go back and get, those seeds become whitebark. This symbiosis is so important to both species
Video examples
Isaac Lidsky: What...
and a landmark appears farther away if you're wearing a heavy backpack. We have arrived at a fundamental contradiction. What you see is a complex mental construction of your own making, but you experience it passively as a direct representation of the world around you.
Video examples
The Land of Pure Silence...
be able to say where you are relative to it if you're trying to use landmarks to navigate something like the mountains or the rocks and we're constantly trying to remember where we are because you're literally in a life raft and if anything
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
And that gives us a nice way to express our estimate of life's improbability. We could make some sort of landmark points along a spectrum of improbability, which might look like the electromagnetic spectrum we just looked at.
Video examples
The strange history of...
in a way that had never been seen before. He did this using brushes sometimes as tiny as a single badger hair. And by depicting details like Ghent landmarks, botanically identifiable flowers, and lifelike faces,
Video examples
Lessons we can learn...
been comparatively less attention paid to veterans who have found personal or professional success or those who are charting a path toward it we were motivated by a landmark survey of post
Video examples
Hammerhead Sharks Gather...
dots of land above the water becomes significant landmarks below these towering sea mounts attract fish in their millions deep ocean currents are forced to the surface bringing nutrients
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Quote examples
Dax Shepard
American Actor
You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.
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Gary Oldman
English Actor
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
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Ralph Northam
American Politician
From landmark investments in renewable energy to bold action to tackle the climate crisis, Virginia is at the forefront of innovative efforts to protect our environment, and addressing the problem of plastic pollution is an important part of this work.
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Robert Baden-Powell
English Soldier
If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.
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Alan Stern
American Scientist
America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.
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Mary Hunter Austin
American Writer
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
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Shankar Mahadevan
Indian Musician
In any musician's career, a film like 'Manikarnika' becomes a landmark dream project, which is challenging and musically enriching at the same time.
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Vera Lynn
British Musician
The white cliffs of Dover are a significant landmark and it is so encouraging to know that they will now be protected for future generations.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
Quote examples
Dax Shepard
American Actor
You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.
Quote examples
Gary Oldman
English Actor
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
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Ralph Northam
American Politician
From landmark investments in renewable energy to bold action to tackle the climate crisis, Virginia is at the forefront of innovative efforts to protect our environment, and addressing the problem of plastic pollution is an important part of this work.
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Robert Baden-Powell
English Soldier
If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.
Quote examples
Alan Stern
American Scientist
America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.
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Mary Hunter Austin
American Writer
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
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Shankar Mahadevan
Indian Musician
In any musician's career, a film like 'Manikarnika' becomes a landmark dream project, which is challenging and musically enriching at the same time.
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Vera Lynn
British Musician
The white cliffs of Dover are a significant landmark and it is so encouraging to know that they will now be protected for future generations.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
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