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guidestones

guidestones is the plural of guidestone.

Meaning of guidestone

Noun

guidestone (plural guidestones)

  1. A traditional stone marker providing directions for travellers.
    • Arrived at Wellington's Monument, the way levels over Eaglestone Flat and passes a guidestone […] that is unusual in being inscribed on one face only: Chesterfeild Roade.1980, Arthur Edward Dodd, Evelyn Mary Dodd, Peakland Roads and Trackways, page 108
  2. (figuratively) Something serving as a guide.
    • Now, as a guidestone for modernization of the classical theory of meromorphic functions, a new revolution was born with discovery of two main theorems by R. Nevanlinna in 1925.1994, Mathematica Japonicae, volume 40, page 18

Questions about guidestones

What is guidestones the plural of?
Guidestones is the plural of guidestone.

Words near guidestones in the dictionary

  1. guideship
  2. guidesman
  3. guidesmen
  4. guidest
  5. guidestone
  6. guidestones
  7. guideth
  8. guidette
  9. guidettes
  10. guideway
  11. guideways

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