milepost
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈmaɪlˌpoʊst/
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- Landslides resulting from floods in 2003 and 2006 have kept the Suiattle River Road closed past milepost 12, locking out hikers from some of the best trails in the North Cascades.
- road near milepost
- mileposts on every highway
- just past milepost
Examples
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Travelers often stop to take pictures at this famous milepost which marks the entrance to the national park.
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The same green milepost signs marked my progress.
Fiction book (1995) -
Highway 33 at milepost 9 near Independence.
Blog text (13) -
I ought go down to the 118 milepost now.
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Farther along the ridge road, between mileposts ten and eleven, the state has provided access to a marvelous overlook of Waimea Canyon.
Academic text (1995) -
The sign at milepost 10 indicates that we are only two miles away from the town center.
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As we drove past milepost 25, we realized how far we had come on our road trip.
Synonyms
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3.5
A stone beside a road that shows the distance to a town
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Milepost joins mile and post, and it literally meant a 'post' placed at each 'mile' to show distance, often along a road. That's why a milepost today is a marker beside a road or railway that tells you how far you have gone or how far to a place.