landmark
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.body)
| hyponym | : | craniometric point, |
| definition | : | a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken (noun.body) |
| domain category | : | surgery, |
| definition | : | the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures (noun.cognition) |
2. a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land (noun.communication)
| hyponym | : | mearstone, meerestone, merestone, |
| definition | : | an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab (noun.communication) |
3. an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend (noun.event)
| hypernym | : | juncture, occasion, |
| definition | : | an event that occurs at a critical time (noun.event) |
| hyponym | : | fall of man, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.event) |
| hyponym | : | road to damascus, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.event) |
4. the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape (noun.location)
| hypernym | : | place, position, |
| definition | : | the particular portion of space occupied by something (noun.location) |
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