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say it: LAND-mahrk
landmark is a noun meaning "the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape". It is pronounced /ˈlændˌmɑɹk/ — LAND-mahrk. It carries 4 recorded senses.
the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
“the church steeple provided a convenient landmark”
an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
“the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations”
a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
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
surgery
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for landmark come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.