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Definition: Landmark |
LandmarkNoun1. The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark". 2. An event marking a unique or important historical change or one on which important developments depend. 3. A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "landmark" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Note: Landmark \Land"mark`\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression landmearc. See Land, and Mark sign.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Landmark a boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc. (Deut. 19:14; 27:17; Prov. 22:28; 23:10; Job 24:2). Landmarks could not be removed without incurring the severe displeasure of God. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Geography | A feature, either natural or artificial, that can be accurately determined on the ground from a grid reference. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A conspicuous object on shore which aids in fixing a ship's position at sea. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Though numerous churches and some organizations use the terms Landmark and Landmark Baptist in their name, there is no identifiable sub-group of Baptists known as the Landmark Baptist Church.Landmark Baptists trace their origin back to the days of Christ, but the names "Landmarkism" and "Landmark Baptist" arose out of an ecclesiological controversy within the Southern Baptist Convention in the mid-1800's. The leaders of what would become known as the Landmark movement were James Robinson Graves, James Madison Pendleton, and Amos Cooper Dayton (sometimes called the Great Triumvirate).
The emphasis of Landmarkism is (1) that the church is local and visible only; (2) that the church has had a continuous existence since its organization by Jesus Christ before Pentecost until the present day (sometimes called Baptist successionism or church perpetuity); (3) that the Great Commission was given to the church (local churches) only; and (4) that baptism and the Lord's supper are church ordinances and are only valid when performed by authority of a New Testament (Baptist) church.
Landmark ideas of ecclesiology still exist within the Southern Baptist Convention, but are more closely associated with the American Baptist Association, the Baptist Missionary Association of America, and the Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association. Many Independent Baptist churches and most unaffiliated Missionary Baptist local associations also hold this ecclesiology. When a majority of the Southern Baptist Convention refused to apply the logical conclusions of Landmarkism to their institutions (such as totally remodeling their system of mission work), many of the strongest advocates of Landmarkism withdrew in the late 1800's. The Gospel Mission controversy, centering around missionary Tarleton Perry Crawford in China, and the Whitsitt controversy, centering around the historical views of seminary professor William Heth Whitsitt, are considered part of the Landmark controversy within the Southern Baptist Convention.
Some other Baptists, such as Primitive Baptists, hold ecclesiological viewpoints that are very similar to Landmarkism.
- Old Landmarkism: What Is It?
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Landmark Baptist Church."
Synonym: LandmarkSynonym: turning point (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, weathercock; guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon-fire; l'etoile du Nord; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize; polestar, loadstar, lodestar; cynosure, guide; address, direction, name; sign, signboard. |
Limit | Boundary line, landmark; line of demarcation, line of |
Measurement | Bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat), barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer (angle) meter; landmark; (limit); balance, scale; (weight); marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts), ammeter(amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Landmark |
| English words defined with "landmark": Balize ♦ Cippus, craniometric point ♦ Hoarstone ♦ mearstone, meerestone, merestone ♦ national monument ♦ Seamark, Stowce ♦ To take a departure. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "landmark": AIRPLANE PILOT, PHOTOGRAMMETRY, Allon ♦ key geographic location, KGL ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Waist circumference. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Landmark (2001) | |
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 | The Salty Dawg Saloon, a landmark at Homer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cypress Point - a world famous landmark on 17 Mile Drive. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The Sapelo Island lighthouse was built in 1820 on the south end of the island. It continues to serve as a navigational landmark for boatmen entering Doboy Sound and Duplin River system. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The RONALD H. BROWN pulling into Capetown, South Africa at the end of the Aerosols cruise. The flat mountain is Table Mountain, a famous South African landmark. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Captioned measured drawing of the 1984 and 1986 planimetric views of the top deck. The 1986 plan adds objects on the deck that were not originally recorded during the 1984 project. Delineated by Larry V. Nordby, Jerry L. Livingston, 1984; Larry V. Nordby, 1986. Drawings photographically reproduced and spliced onto the HAER Sheet by Robbyn Jackson, 1991. (Reproduction Number: HAER HI-13, sheet 3 of 4) This 1916 battleship is the final resting place for many of the 1,177 USS Arizona crewmen who died on December 7, 1941--the day of the Japanese air attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Hit by a 1,760-pound bomb shortly after 8:00 a.m., the ship sank in less than nine minutes, leaving very little time for the crew to escape. By the end of the attack, the Pacific Fleet had lost many ships and more than two thousand personnel. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. The USS Arizona received National Historic Landmark designation in 1989. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Landmark" by Luis Alves Commentary: "This is a very strange object located near my work. Its shape is interesting, but I don't know what it is. It has some circular antenas placed on it, but I don't think it's an antenna... I'll post it when I find out, gotta go near it. <br> <br>" | "Eiffel tower" by Stella Reese Commentary: "No collection is complete without a shot of this famous landmark. The Eiffel tower in Paris." |
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Business | The European Commission also adopted a landmark Energy White Paper in 1995, following a proposal by European Commissioner Christos Papoutsis. (references) | |
Beijing's Landmark Hotel is a successful case for use of the set-top boxes (STBs). Guests of this hotel can use STBs to watch cable programs, send emails and surf the net through the hotel's TV sets. The guests no longer need to travel to the Business Center for sending emails. (references) | ||
As a result of landmark steps over the past two years, the Government now offers favorable terms for private investors to become involved in the sector, including land use and tax incentives, as well as the promise that employees will enjoy the same benefits as in the public sector. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Estonia | The unregistered status of the church made negotiations on and the settlement of the issue of the ownership of the Aleksander Nevski Cathedral, a prominent and valuable Tallinn landmark, problematic. (references) |
Economic History | Japan | The coalition succeeded in passing landmark political reform legislation in January 1994. (references) |
Ireland | Among the latest projects is the Doonbeg Golf Links by Landmark National/Greg Norman Golf Course Design. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brunei | However, in 1996 in a landmark legal decision, the appellate-level High Court ruled that the court has powers independent of the prosecution and ordered a discharge in a car theft case under review, which amounted to an acquittal under the Criminal Procedure Code. (references) |
Political Economy | Brazil | In addition to its commercial and technological importance, the landmark agreement is another sign of the close relations that exist now between the two governments. (references) |
Ecuador | Despite the economic reforms of this past year, including landmark legislation approved in April 2000, and increased private sector participation in state-run enterprises, Ecuador's economy remains under pressure. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This Administration has collaborated successfully with the Congress on landmark education legislation. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I hope we can work together as we did last year in enacting the landmark Job Training Partnership Act. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Then last year, Congress enacted landmark welfare reform legislation, demanding that all able-bodied recipients assume the responsibility of moving from welfare to work. |
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| "Landmark" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Landmark" is used about 391 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.44% | 381 | 14,421 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.3% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 391 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "landmark" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Landmark | Last name | 100 | 82,339 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Landmark Berhad | USA | Landmark Bancshares, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "landmark": outstanding landmark ♦ prominent landmark ♦ set a landmark. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "landmark"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | piketë (picket, piquet, stake), pikë referimi, gur kufiri. (various references) | |
Arabic | نقطة الإستدلال, قرار مهم يدخل التاريخ, المعالم الرئيسية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слог, синор (balk, headland, party line), решителен момент, граничен камък, граничен знак, ориентир (peg), забележителност (memorability, prominence, prominency, show place), повратна точка (turning point, watershed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 界標 , 地标. (various references) | |
Czech | orientaèní bod, mezník (land-mark, milestone, terminus). (various references) | |
Danish | lodsmærke, landmærke, soemaerke, mærke (mark). (various references) | |
Dutch | landmerk, teken (character, indication, mark, omen, portent, precursor, presage, proof, sign, signal, symptom, token), mijlpaal (milepost, milestone), merk (mark), mijlpaal (milepost, milestone), mýlpaal (milepost, milestone). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mejloŝtono (milepost, milestone). (various references) | |
Farsi | نقطه تحول تاریخ , نشان اختصاصی (Trait), واقعه برجسته , راهنما (Adviser, Clue, Conductor, Guidance, Guide, Guideline, Key, Keyword, Leader, Lodestar, Pacemaker, Polestar, Signal, Usher). (various references) | |
Finnish | virstanpylväs (milestone), tuntomerkki (distinctive mark, mark of identification), rajapyykki (boundary stone), pyykki (boundary stone, wash), maamerkki. (various references) | |
French | point de repère. (various references) | |
German | grenzstein (boundary stone), landmarke. (various references) | |
Greek | ορόσημο (cairn). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ציון דרך (milestone, monument, post, signpost, waymark). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tájékozódási pont (checkpoint, orientation point, pinpoint, reference point), iránypont, határkõ (hoar-stone, mete, milestone), határkő (monument), fordulópont (burning point, turning point, turning-point), feltűnő tereptárgy. (various references) | |
Italian | punto di riferimento (point of reference). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 目印 (mark, sign), 目印 (mark, sign), ランゲルハンス島 (athletic-style shirt, bag, inside-the-park home run, isle of Langerhans, knapsack, lance, Lancel, lancer, land, landing, landing bahn, LANDSAT, landscape, lantern, lanthanum, Lanvin, launch, launcher, laundry, lingerie, lunch, lunch set, luncheon, lunchtime, lunchtime concert, meeting, pensioneer, random, random sampling, rumble seat, runner, runner's high, running, running cost, running home run, running homer, running stock, running vest, run-through, runtime, satchel with back straps, tank top), 境界標 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ランドマーク , きょうかいひょう, めじるし (mark, sign). (various references) | |
Korean | 경계표. (various references) | |
Manx | laa er lheh, cowrey thallooin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andmarklay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ponto de referência (picket), marco divisório, marco de fronteira, marco (boundary, goal, guide, limit, Marcus, mark, mete), marca em terra, divisa (badge, chevron, emblem, motto, slogan, stripe, watchword), descoberta excepcional, baliza (buoy, goal, pole, post). (various references) | |
Romanian | semn terestru, reper de uscat, reper (bench, Mark, part, tee), punct topografic, bornã de hotar, balizã (buoy, float, sea mark). (various references) | |
Russian | поворотный пункт (turning point, turning-point). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | znamenitost (notability, sight), reper (benchmark), orijentir, međa (border, confine, march). (various references) | |
Spanish | mojón (boundary stone, cairn, mile-post, milestone, picket), marca (brand, distinguishing mark, footprint, make, March, Mark, name tab, note, patent, performance, scratch, seamark, stamp, trademark). (various references) | |
Swedish | milstolpe (mile-post, milestone), gränsmärke (boundary mark, boundary sign, monument). (various references) | |
Turkish | yön bulma işareti, sınır taşı (term), işaret (augury, badge, character, chop, clew, clue, cue, device, distinguishing mark, earmark, ensign, foretoken, gesture, glimpse, graph, harbinger, hint, index, indication, indicator, logo, logotype, marker, note, pip, prognostic, prognostication, representation, sign, signal, signature, symbol, symptom, token, touch, trace). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зelgi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | віха (beacon, buoy, dool, pole), наземний орієнтир, межовий знак. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giới hạn mốc, bước ngoặc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mh metaqhV oria aiwnia eiV de kthma orfanwn mh eiselqhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne adtingas terminos parvulorum et agrum pupillorum ne introeas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ne ateyne thou the termes of litle childer; and the feeld of moderles childer go thou not in. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ayaw pagbalhina ang karaang mohon sa yuta; Ug ayaw pagsulod sa kaumahan sa mga ilo: |
| Croatian | Ne pomièi prastare meðe i ne prodiri u polje siroèadi, |
| Danish | Flyt ej ældgamle Skel, kom ikke på faderløses Mark; |
| Dutch | Zet de oude palen niet terug; en kom op de akkers der wezen niet; |
| Finnish | Älä siirrä ikivanhaa rajaa äläkä mene orpojen pelloille. |
| French | Ne déplace pas la borne ancienne, Et n`entre pas dans le champ des orphelins; |
| German | Verrücke nicht die vorigen Grenzen und gehe nicht auf der Waisen Acker. |
| Hungarian | Ne mozdítsd meg a régi határt, és az árváknak mezeibe ne kapj; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jangan sekali-kali memindahkan batas tanah warisan atau mengambil tanah kepunyaan yatim piatu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Janganlah pindahkan tanda perhinggaan yang lama itu, dan jangan masuk ke dalam bendang anak-anak piatu; |
| Italian | Non spostare il confine antico, e non invadere il campo degli orfani, |
| Maori | ¶ Kei whakanekehia e koe te rohe tawhito; kei haere koe ki nga mara a te pani: |
| Norwegian | Flytt ikke det gamle grenseskjell, og kom ikke inn på farløses marker! |
| Rumanian | Nu muta hotarul vqduvei, wi nu intra kn ogorul orfanilor, |
| Russian | оЕ РЕТЕДЧЙЗБК НЕЦЙ ДБЧОЕК Й ОБ РПМС УЙТПФ ОЕ ЪБИПДЙ, |
| Spanish | No cambies de lugar el lindero antiguo, ni entres en los campos de los huérfanos. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "landmark": landmarks. (additional references) | |
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"Landmark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aldwarke, Kandhari, Linmack, Lundbaek, Nandmuri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "landmark" (pronounced la"ndmÄ'rk) |
| 5 | -d m Ä' r k | trademark. |
| 4 | -m Ä' r k | benchmark, birthmark, earmark, hallmark, pockmark, postmark, watermark. |
| 3 | -Ä' r k | aardvark, ballpark, matriarch, meadowlark, monarch, oligarch, patriarch, Skylark. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-k-l-m-n-r" | |
-3 letters: adman, aland, alarm, daman, damar, drama, drank, kalam, karma, kraal, makar, malar. | |
-4 letters: alan, alar, alma, anal, arak, damn, dank, dark, darn, dram, kana, karn, knar, lama, land, lank, lard, lark, maar, mana, mark, marl, nada, nard, nark, rand, rank. | |
-5 letters: aal, ala, ama, ana, and, ark, arm, dak, dal, dam, lad, lam. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-k-l-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: landmarks. | |
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