Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A post supporting a sign or signs with information or directions.
- noun An indication, sign, or guide.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A post holding a sign.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
post bearing asign that givesinformation ondirections - verb transitive to install signposts (on a route etc)
- verb To indicate logical progress of a
discourse using words or phrases such asnow ,right , torecap , tosum up ,as I was saying , etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
- verb mark with a signpost, as of a path
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Examples
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I have replied, but you have to click on the arrow to page 2 of the comments to see: the signpost is not very clear I am afraid.
Sunday Salon: internal life of characters Maxine 2008
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I have replied, but you have to click on the arrow to page 2 of the comments to see: the signpost is not very clear I am afraid.
Sunday Salon: internal life of characters Maxine 2008
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Most of the railway stations of Mexico were solidly built and any that merit an Est. signpost from the main highway are almost certainly still well worth visiting.
Did you know? Mexico has many "Est"raordinary railway places 2008
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Most of the railway stations of Mexico were solidly built and any that merit an Est. signpost from the main highway are almost certainly still well worth visiting.
Did you know? Mexico has many "Est"raordinary railway places 2008
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Most of the railway stations of Mexico were solidly built and any that merit an Est. signpost from the main highway are almost certainly still well worth visiting.
Did you know? Mexico has many "Est"raordinary railway places 2008
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I have replied, but you have to click on the arrow to page 2 of the comments to see: the signpost is not very clear I am afraid.
May 2008 Maxine 2008
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Snowscapes, where every familiar signpost is missing.
O.M.G. suricattus 2005
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On the grass verge beside the signpost was a small shrine with a blue-clothed statue of the Virgin Mary.
hitchhiking James Claffey 2011
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I remember 1968, when the conventioneers got overwhelmed by the protests outside and started singing "We Shall Overcome" and took down their vertical state-name signpost and rocked it in the horizontal position.
Emailed CNN "Breaking News": "Barack Obama wins Democratic Party's presidential nomination after Hillary Clinton's motion on the convention floor." Ann Althouse 2008
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When we are lost in the woods the sight of a signpost is a great matter.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
Prolagus commented on the word signpost
Song quotation on confidante.
October 20, 2009