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noun

Landmark n.

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.

Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

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.

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.

Landmarks of history, important events by which eras or conditions are determined.

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Etymology of 'Landmark'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Landmark" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the fog. It was the last landmark. The tickle rocks, through which a passage leads to the harbour, had ...

— Billy Topsail & Company - A Story for Boys • Norman Duncan

... stones; but the trees are remarkable.' 'How so?' 'Why, I'll tell you how they are very remarkable. You see, in winter, when the snow lies very deep, and has hidden the whole road so that nothing is to be seen, those trees serve me for a landmark. I steer by them, so as not to drive into the sea; and you see that is why ...

— What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales • Hans Christian Andersen

... one of the most notable fortresses of the North, still remained in an excellent state of preservation. Its great Norman keep formed a landmark that could be seen over many a mile of the surrounding country; many of its smaller towers were still intact, and its curtain walls, barbican and ancient chapel had escaped the ravages of time. The ground around it had been laid out as a public garden, and its great courtyard turned into a ...

— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

... practically barren of timber, and as yet unsupplied with brick or boards. In addition to the main dugout there was a rude barn built of sods, and towering high above the squat buildings rose the frame of the first windmill on the cattle trail, a landmark for many miles. Seeing these things growing up about him, at the suggestion and partly through the aid of his widely scattered but kind-hearted neighbours, Major Buford began to take on heart of grace. He foresaw for his people an independence, rude and far below their former plane ...

— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough

... Rigsdag, the instrument was approved by the crown. For the moment the question of the duchies seemed insoluble, and this second constitution was extended to Jutland and the Islands only, i.e., to Denmark proper. Its adoption, however, is a landmark in Danish constitutional history. Under its terms the autocracy of the Kongelov was formally abandoned and in its place was substituted a limited monarchy in which legislative powers were to be shared ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

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