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waypost

waypost noun: a sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.

Noun

waypost (plural wayposts)

  1. A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
    • Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.1991, Norman Rush, Mating
  2. (figuratively) Something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point.
    • As society evolves, education must change to keep apace with it, so may this text serve as a waypost, not a goal.1922, Jane Wright McKee, Purposeful handwork
    • The war makes many oblique appearances in a work which, despite its saturation with traditional images, is regarded as a waypost of artistic modernism because of its fashionable anthropological references, jazz-like rhythms and random snatches of the pulsing city's polyphonic argot.2008, Michael Burleigh, Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror, page 13

Forms of waypost

pluralwayposts

Origin of waypost

From way + post.

Questions about waypost

What does waypost mean?
Waypost means a sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
What part of speech is waypost?
Waypost is a noun.
What is the plural of waypost?
The plural of waypost is wayposts.

Words near waypost in the dictionary

  1. Wayo
  2. wayobject
  3. wayobjects
  4. waypoint
  5. waypoints
  6. waypost
  7. wayposts
  8. Wayre
  9. ways
  10. ways and means
  11. ways in

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