Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A post set up to indicate distance in miles, as along a highway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A post set up to mark distance by miles along a highway or other line of travel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.
- noun An event or accomplishment marking a significant advance in an endeavor; a notable achievment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
post on a highway, often with one or morefingerposts , showing the distance inmiles to nearby places - noun rail transport A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun stone post at side of a road to show distances
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Examples
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This photo is taken from 20 Minute Cliff, aka milepost 19 of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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This photo is taken from 20 Minute Cliff, aka milepost 19 of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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Therefore, the year 2000 is one important milepost, though for many religious traditions it also marks a heightening of their invisibility.
Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011
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For a country that has been changing prime ministers yearly and consuming its own with nasty political infighting, the resignation is one more dreary milepost on a road to apparent ungovernability.
The real scandal in the resignation of Japan's foreign minister 2011
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Therefore, the year 2000 is one important milepost, though for many religious traditions it also marks a heightening of their invisibility.
Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011
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To cap off Lula's presidency, Rio de Janeiro last year was awarded the 2016 Olympics, which many Brazilians saw as a milepost.
Rousseff is Brazil's first female president Juan Forero 2010
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Please note that it means a lot of things more than just a milepost or marker.
Hito 2009
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Please note that it means a lot of things more than just a milepost or marker.
Hito 2009
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Please note that it means a lot of things more than just a milepost or marker.
Hito 2009
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To cap off Lula's presidency, Rio de Janeiro last year was awarded the 2016 Olympics, which many Brazilians saw as a milepost.
Rousseff is Brazil's first female president Juan Forero 2010
skipvia commented on the word milepost
Many addresses in Alaska are given as milepost values--e.g., Mile 263, Parks Highway.
(We use the term highway loosely here.)
December 21, 2007
skipvia commented on the word milepost
WeirdNet notwithstanding, we don't make them out of stone. Anymore.
December 21, 2007
mollusque commented on the word milepost
"On the Road to Tok" was my favorite postcard when I was in Alaska in 1983. I see it's now the title and cover of a book.
December 21, 2007