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English noun: landmark | |||
| 1. | landmark (location) the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape | ||
| Samples | The church steeple provided a convenient landmark. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | place, position | ||
| 2. | landmark (event) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | ||
| Samples | The agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations. | ||
| Synonyms | turning point, watershed | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | juncture, occasion | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Fall of Man, road to Damascus | ||
| 3. | landmark (communication) a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | point of reference, reference, reference point | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | mearstone, meerestone, merestone | ||
| 4. | landmark (body) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | craniometric point | ||
| Domain category | surgery | ||
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