Milestone
['maɪlstəʊn] or ['maɪlston]
Definition
(noun.) stone post at side of a road to show distances.
(noun.) a significant event in your life (or in a project).
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Definition
(n.) A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.
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Examples
- I might as well (as the Irish say) have whistled jigs to a milestone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Then he sat down to rest by the side of the milestone, and began to think, for the first time, where he had better go and try to live. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He was pitched out of his gig once, and knocked, head first, against a milestone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We left him at a milestone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They are extremely important as symptoms, as milestones, and as instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All them old cats _will _run their heads agin milestones,' observed Mr. Weller, in a parenthesis. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Well, Major Dobbin passed through all this from Southampton to London, and without noting much beyond the milestones along the road. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As we make the backward run of one hundred years we have passed by many milestones of progress. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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