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landmark    音标拼音: [l'ændm,ɑrk]
n. 界标;陆上明显标志;里程碑

界标;陆上明显标志;里程碑

landmark
n 1: 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"
[synonym: {landmark}, {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

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.
[1913 Webster]

2. Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide;
some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[PJC]

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.
[PJC]

{Landmarks of history}, important events by which eras or
conditions are determined.
[1913 Webster]

68 Moby Thesaurus words for "landmark":
bench mark, bookmark, cairn, cardinal point, catstone, chief thing,
climax, core, cornerstone, crisis, critical, critical point,
crucial, crux, essence, essential, essential matter, feature,
fundamental, gist, gravamen, great point, guide, guidepost, heart,
high point, historic, identification, important, important thing,
issue, kernel, keystone, lighthouse, lightship, main point,
main thing, major, mark, marker, material point, meat, menhir,
milepost, milestone, momentous, monument, notable, noteworthy, nub,
pharos, pith, pivot, pivotal, platform, real issue, salient point,
seamark, significant, sine qua non, substance, substantive point,
the bottom line, the point, tower, turning point, watchtower,
watershed

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