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Definition of Milestone
1. Noun. Stone post at side of a road to show distances.
2. Noun. A significant event in your life (or in a project).
Definition of Milestone
1. n. A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.
Definition of Milestone
1. Noun. A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median. ¹
2. Noun. An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Milestone
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Milestone
Literary usage of Milestone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome by Archaeological Institute of America (1905)
"Hence the milestone found again by us at 60 (see Plan, PLATE XV) must be, ...
If, inversely, this is the 43rd milestone and near its original site, ..."
2. The Publications of the Thoresby Society by Thoresby Society (1899)
"The milestone must, therefore, have been found very close to a Roman road, and
in all probability, very close to its original position. ..."
3. Western Windows and Other Poems by John James Piatt (1877)
"READING THE milestone. I STOPP'D to read the milestone here, A laggard school-boy,
long ago; I came not far—iny home was near— But ah, how far I long'd to ..."
4. Remnants of Early Latin by Frederic De Forest Allen (1897)
"milestone of Popilius. IOO. P. Popilius C. /. cos. ... as the stone bearing this
very inscription, which is certainly more than an ordinary milestone. ..."
5. The Political Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1874)
"... Penalty for or milestone, or guide post, or any inscription on such, milestone
erected on any highway, is liable to a penalty of ten Buide P°st- dollars ..."
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