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UK
/lˈændmɑːk/
]
[ US /ˈɫændˌmɑɹk/ ]
[ US /ˈɫændˌmɑɹk/ ]
NOUN
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the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
the church steeple provided a convenient landmark - a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
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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 - 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
How To Use landmark In A Sentence
- In a landmark case/decision, the Governor pardoned a woman convicted of killing her husband, who had physically abused her.
- The giant cross has become a familiar landmark to generations of San Franciscans.
- Gamers familiar with some tracks will easily be able to pick out certain landmarks or other features from their real-life counterparts.
- It would be a shame to lose it - it is the landmark of the town centre.
- Well, sir, I won't say anything about the hextry gas, though a poor widder and sevenpence hextry on the thousand, but I'm thinkin 'if you would give my Rosie a lesson once a week on that there pianner, it would be a kind of set-off, for you know, sir, the policeman tells me your winder is a landmark to' im on the foggiest nights. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
- This landmark and laudable legislative step would go a long way in women empowerment and gender equality.
- This is done on the exterior, although landmark buildings have been retrofitted inside at great cost and with extreme difficulty.
- European visitors to the site on the Wells Estate are often dismayed to find a landmark where undrinkable water leaks from crumbling walls.
- Many people apparently find that their lives are better after they get involved in est, NLP, Landmark Forum, or Scientology.
- She had no idea she could do this before the forest; look at a good topo map of an area and visualize the view from the ground so well, and memorize the landmarks in such detail, it's as if she had been raised in the area her whole life.