Both Uses of
landmark
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She did not know for how many miles the memory of the sound of words seemed like a small landmark rolling away into the distance, then vanishing.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- When he reached the empty darkness beyond Philadelphia-in the place where the flames of Rearden Steel had for years been his favorite landmark, his greeting in the loneliness of night, the beacon of a living earth-he saw a snow-covered spread, dead-white and phosphorescent in the starlight, a spread of peaks and craters that looked like the surface of the moon.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(landmark) something very important
or:
something easily recognized (such as a monument, building, or geographic feature) -- especially one that is a tourist destination or that helps you know where you are