Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A post set up to indicate distance in miles, as along a highway.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A post set up to mark distance by miles along a highway or other line of travel.
Wiktionary
- n. A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places
- n. 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)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. An event or accomplishment marking a significant advance in an endeavor; a notable achievment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. stone post at side of a road to show distances
Examples
“This photo is taken from 20 Minute Cliff, aka milepost 19 of the Blue Ridge Parkway.”
“Please note that it means a lot of things more than just a milepost or marker.”
“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 Washington Post: The real scandal in the resignation of Japan's foreign minister
“To cap off Lula's presidency, Rio de Janeiro last year was awarded the 2016 Olympics, which many Brazilians saw as a milepost.”
The Washington Post: Rousseff is Brazil's first female president
“Therefore, the year 2000 is one important milepost, though for many religious traditions it also marks a heightening of their invisibility.”
The Huffington Post: Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December
“It is just a significant milepost along the way and I think it is important that we do continue these efforts.”
Voice of America: Experts: Bin Laden’s Death Has Negative Impact on Terrorism Financing
“Unfortunately, that milepost doesn't look reachable anytime soon.”
“The Bills will head into the season as a notable milepost on the NFL map, if only to mark high-definition plot lines with Owens — whose skills can't be taken for granted (even at age 35) and whose persona is always worth watching.”
Will Terrell Owens' style play well in Buffalo's small market?
“Done right, it is a journey undertaken with only a fragmentary map constructed out of a patchwork of accumulated local lore and the occasional milepost marked "here be dragons.”
“If we'd been able to call him back, though, I think we might very well have left the jacket hanging on the milepost 152 sign and kept going.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘milepost’.
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Going Postal
Words that contain the letters "post" in that order, etymology not important.
post, postal, riposte, post up, imposter, posterity, posterior, postpartum, postnasal, dumb as a post, posthole, posthole digger and 37 more...
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North to Alaska
oosik, nanook, muktuk, aurora borealysis, aqutak, malemute, iditarod, yukon quest, wheel dog, lead dog, red lantern, salmon cheeks and 52 more...
Tweets
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mollusque "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. Dec 20, 2007
skipvia WeirdNet notwithstanding, we don't make them out of stone. Anymore. Dec 20, 2007
skipvia Many addresses in Alaska are given as milepost values--e.g., Mile 263, Parks Highway.
(We use the term highway loosely here.) Dec 20, 2007