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Noun landmark has 4 senses

landmark - the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark"
--₁ is a kind of position, place
landmark, turning point, watershed - 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"
--₂ is a kind of juncture, occasion
--₂ has particulars: Fall of Man; road to Damascus
landmark - a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
--₃ is a kind of reference point, point of reference, reference
--₃ has particulars: merestone, meerestone, mearstone
landmark - 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
--₄ is a kind of structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
--₄ has particulars: craniometric point