| NOUN | location | landmark | the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape |
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| event | landmark, turning point, watershed | an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | |
| communication | landmark | a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land | |
| body | landmark | 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 |
| Sounds | lae'ndmaa.rk | |
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| Rhymes | aardvark ... watermark: 41 rhymes with aark... | |
| Meaning | The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape. | |
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| Example | "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark" | |
| Broader | position, place | The particular portion of space occupied by something |
| Spanish | punto destacado | |
| Catalan | punt destacat, punt prominent | |
| Meaning | An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend. | |
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| Synonyms | turning point, watershed | |
| Narrower | 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) | |
| Broader | juncture, occasion | An event that occurs at a critical time |
| Spanish | punto de inflexión, sobresaliente | |
| Catalan | moment decisiu | |
| Meaning | A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land. | |
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| Narrower | merestone, meerestone, mearstone | An old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones / stones surmounted by an upright slab |
| Broader | reference point, point of reference, reference | An indicator that orients you generally |
| Spanish | mojón | |
| 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. | |
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| Category | surgery | The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures |
| Narrower | craniometric point | A landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken |
| Broader | structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure | A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing |
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