milepost
IPA: mɪɫˈipoʊst
noun
- A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places
- (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)
verb
- To place mileposts along (a road, etc.).
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Examples of "milepost" in Sentences
- Please note that it means a lot of things more than just a milepost or marker.
- This photo is taken from 20 Minute Cliff, aka milepost 19 of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- To cap off Lula's presidency, Rio de Janeiro last year was awarded the 2016 Olympics, which many Brazilians saw as a milepost.
- Therefore, the year 2000 is one important milepost, though for many religious traditions it also marks a heightening of their invisibility.
- 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.
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