Waypost
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Waypost is a noun meaning A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
Meaning
A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
More Meanings
- (figuratively) Something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point.
Example Sentences
As society evolves, education must change to keep apace with it, so may this text serve as a waypost, not a goal.
Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.
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.
Word Forms
- wayposts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mark, signalpost, post, fencepost, postroad, guardpost.
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