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milepost

/ˈmaɪlˌpoʊst/

milepost noun: a post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places.

Noun

milepost (plural mileposts)

  1. A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places.
    Synonyms:
    milepole
  2. A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line).
    • But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217
    • [...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted...1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 212

Verb

milepost (third-person singular simple present mileposts, present participle mileposting, simple past and past participle mileposted)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To place mileposts along (a road, etc.).

milepost meaning in Urdu and Kannada

milepost in Urdu

سنگ میل

milepost in Kannada

ಮೈಲಿಕಂಬ

Synonyms of milepost

Forms of milepost

Noun
pluralmileposts
Verb
third-person singular presentmileposts
present participlemileposting
past participlemileposted
pastmileposted

Origin of milepost

From mile + post.

Questions about milepost

What does milepost mean?
Milepost means a post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places.
What is milepost in Urdu?
Milepost in Urdu is سنگ میل. See Milepost meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is milepost?
Milepost can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce milepost?
Milepost is pronounced /ˈmaɪlˌpoʊst/ (US).
What is the plural of milepost?
The plural of milepost is mileposts.

Words near milepost in the dictionary

  1. milenperone
  2. mileometer
  3. mileometers
  4. milepole
  5. milepoles
  6. milepost
  7. mileposted
  8. mileposting
  9. mileposts
  10. miler
  11. milers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: milepost (page history and authors); milepost (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); milepost (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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