LANDMARK: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for LANDMARK?

Need another word that means the same as “landmark”? Find 20 synonyms and 30 related words for “landmark” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Landmark” are: turning point, watershed, marker, mark, indicator, leading light, signal, beacon, lodestar, sign, monument, sight, spectacle, boundary marker, boundary line, boundary fence, pale, picket, milestone, major achievement

Landmark as a Noun

Definitions of "Landmark" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “landmark” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land.
• The boundary of an area of land, or an object marking this.
• The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape.
• An object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location.
• 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.
• An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend.
• A building or monument of historical importance.
• An event or discovery marking an important stage or turning point in something.

Synonyms of "Landmark" as a noun (20 Words)

beacon	A hill suitable for a beacon. A chain of beacons carried the news.
boundary fence	The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
boundary line	A line determining the limits of an area.
boundary marker	The greatest possible degree of something.
indicator	A device for showing the operating condition of some system. An indicator light.
leading light	The activity of leading.
lodestar	Guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy. She was his intellectual lodestar.
major achievement	British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943.
mark	A marking that consists of lines that cross each other. He was five feet nine with no distinguishing marks.
marker	Some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something. Identification with one s own language has always been a marker of nationalism.
milestone	A significant stage or event in the development of something. The speech is being hailed as a milestone in race relations.
monument	A burial vault (usually for some famous person. The amphitheatre is one of the many Greek monuments in Sicily.
pale	A wooden strip forming part of a fence.
picket	A blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a picket. A cedar picket stockade.
sight	The area or distance within which someone can see or something can be seen. They went to Paris to see the sights.
sign	A gesture that is part of a sign language. The shops are full which is a sign that the recession is past its worst.
signal	Any incitement to action. The firing of the gun was the signal for a chain of beacons to be lit.
spectacle	A blunder that makes you look ridiculous used in the phrase make a spectacle of yourself. The spectacle of a city s mass grief.
turning point	Taking a short walk out and back.
watershed	An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend. These works were a watershed in the history of music.

Usage Examples of "Landmark" as a noun

• The vaccine is a landmark in the history of preventive medicine.
• The church steeple provided a convenient landmark.
• The entire town has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
• The spire was once a landmark for ships sailing up the river.
• At certain points of the boundary the men would beat the landmark with their sticks.

Associations of "Landmark" (30 Words)

butte	A town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper.
coffin	Put a dead body in a coffin. They lowered her coffin into the ground.
dune	A mound or ridge of sand or other loose sediment formed by the wind, especially on the sea coast or in a desert. A sand dune.
floodplain	A low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding.
foothill	A low hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range. The camp lies in the foothills of the Andes.
forest	Establish a forest on previously unforested land. A forest of high rise apartments.
glacier	A slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
hill	Form into a hill. If frost threatens our new plants we hill them up.
logging	The activity or business of felling trees and cutting and preparing the timber. Measures to counter illegal logging of the country s tropical rainforests.
marsh	Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water. Thousands of acres of marshland.
mining	The process or industry of obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine. Coal mining.
mound	A slight elevation from which the pitcher delivers the ball. A mound of dirty crockery.
mountain	A large number or amount or extent. They sought refuge in the mountains.
riparian	Relating to or situated on the banks of a river. All the riparian states must sign an agreement.
river	Used in names of animals and plants living in or associated with rivers e g river dolphin. Great rivers of molten lava.
rock	A mass of rock projecting above the earth s surface or out of the sea. There are dangerous rocks around the island.
sandstone	Sedimentary rock consisting of sand or quartz grains cemented together, typically red, yellow, or brown in colour.
sarcophagus	A stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions.
savanna	A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions.
sculpture	Form or shape as if by sculpture especially with strong smooth curves. Ammonite shells with external sculpture near the aperture.
shoal	Of fish form shoals. Shoals of people were coming up the drive.
significant	Of considerable importance, size, or worth. A significant increase in sales.
stone	A piece of stone shaped for a purpose especially one of commemoration ceremony or demarcation. A gold ring with a small dark red stone.
stream	The act of flowing or streaming continuous progression. Tears streamed down her face.
summit	Reach the summit of a mountain or hill. They started climbing at 3 45 a m and summited at 8 45 p m.
swamp	Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid. The ceaseless deluge had turned the lawn into a swamp.
tributary	A person or state that pays tribute to another state or ruler. A tributary colony.
vale	A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river. The Vale of Glamorgan.
watershed	An event or period marking a turning point in a situation. The agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations.
wetland	Land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land. Wetland habitats.