LANDMARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landmark mean? 

• LANDMARK (noun)
  The noun LANDMARK has 4 senses:

1. the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape

2. an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend

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

  Familiarity information: LANDMARK used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDMARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the church steeple provided a convenient landmark

Hypernyms ("landmark" is a kind of...):

place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

landmark; turning point; watershed

Context example:

the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations

Hypernyms ("landmark" is a kind of...):

juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landmark"):

Fall of Man ((Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death)

road to Damascus (a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("landmark" is a kind of...):

point of reference; reference; reference point (an indicator that orients you generally)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landmark"):

mearstone; meerestone; merestone (an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("landmark" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Domain category:

surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landmark"):

craniometric point (a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken)

 Context examples 

The year 2020 will likely be your landmark year when many of the goals you had long hoped to materialize will come true.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This is the first time anyone has been recorded to run a full marathon of 42.195 kilometers (approximately 26 miles) under this pursued landmark time.

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

Much prior memory research has focused on semantic memory—remembering facts, such as famous people and landmarks.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)

Exactly. It was an Assai palm which I took for my landmark.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This landmark study represents a major step toward elucidating the biological underpinnings of depression.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then in the meantime I will stay here and wait for you, said the girl, and that no one may recognize me, I will change myself into a red stone landmark.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Relative to a nuclear landmark (e.g. nucleolus), chromosome territories appear to differ from cell to cell.

(Chromosome Territory, NCI Thesaurus)

The completed activity which marks a common administrative landmark for a study subject in the course of a study.

(Performed Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

I had abundant occupation for my thoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An administrative activity defined at a global library level that represents a common administrative landmark for a study subject in the course of a study.

(Defined Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus)