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Signpost   /sˈaɪnpˌoʊst/   Listen
Signpost

noun
1.
A post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way.  Synonym: guidepost.
verb
1.
Mark with a signpost, as of a path.





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"Signpost" Quotes from Famous Books



... a certain corner I passed of late. On it, in big white letters on a blue ground, is written "To Lille." Every township for a hundred miles has that same signpost, showing you the way to the great city of Northern France. But Rockefeller himself with all his motor-cars could not follow its direction to-day. For the city to which it points is six miles behind the German lines. You can get from our ...
— Letters from France • C. E. W. Bean
... him what the day had withheld. The dream of a girl of six was similar; her father had cut short the walk before reaching the promised objective on account of the lateness of the hour. On the way back she noticed a signpost giving the name of another place for excursions; her father promised to take her there also some other day. She greeted her father next day with the news that she had dreamt that her father had been ...
— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud
... accomplishment of the prophecy; and in fact, like some other of the external correspondences between His life and the outward details of Old Testament prophecy, is intended for little more than a picture or a signpost which may direct our thoughts to the inward correspondence, which is the ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren
... this, further, that patterns fail because they are only patterns, and cannot get themselves executed, and laws fail because they are only laws and cannot get themselves obeyed. What is the use of a signpost to a man who is lame, or who does not want to go down the road, though he knows it well enough? But Christianity brings both the commandment and the motive ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren
... was executed on boards of a substantial thickness, and the top decorated with irons, for suspending the honoured effigy upon a signpost. ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott


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