landmark

Noun
  1. The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape (synset 108642466)
    "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark"
    is a type of: place, position - the particular portion of space occupied by something
  2. An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend (synset 107432451)
    "the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations"
    is a type of: juncture, occasion - an event that occurs at a critical time
    subtypes:
    • 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)
    same as: turning point, watershed
  3. A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land (synset 107273987)
    is a type of: point of reference, reference, reference point - an indicator that orients you generally
    subtypes: mearstone, meerestone, merestone - an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab
  4. 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 (synset 105237687)
    referred to in: surgery - the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
    is a type of: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
    subtypes: craniometric point - a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken

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