milestone
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn/
:
hito kilométrico
- Congratulations on reaching the RTM milestone.
- milestone number
Examples
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The milestone by the roadside indicated that the nearest city was ten miles away.
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Yet, the milestone was too big, too heavy.
Blog text (11) -
I passed that milestone a while back myself.
Fiction book (1995) -
I said I thought it was a Roman milestone, but he ignored me.
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The stone paving extended only to the first milestone; then they were on a road of hard-packed earth, which the daily rains of this season kept from becoming dusty.
Fiction book (1990) -
Many of us try to plan out our lives with age milestones, for example, and if we do not attain our goals in a given time frame, then we can feel anxiety, discontent, or unhappiness.
Blog text (18) -
Somehow, it seemed like a major milestone on the countdown to retirement—in fact, the first such "last" that has actually struck me as being in some ways meaningful.
Blog text (17) -
As we cycled along the path, we passed a milestone that marked the distance to the next town.
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An old milestone showed that it was three miles to the village, making it easy to find our way.
Synonyms
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1.0
An object placed to show a position, boundary or route
80
3.5
An easy to see object used to find or show a place
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5.1
A point on a route used to help find the way
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5.1
A post beside a road or railway that shows distance in miles to towns
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2.5
A post with a sign that shows directions on a road or trail
A sign by the road that shows drivers where places are
How Informative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word milestone originally meant a stone placed every mile on a road to show the 'distance' to a town or place. So a literal milestone is a stone marker that tells you how far you have gone or how far you must go.