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milestone
/ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn/
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What does milestone mean?
noun
- A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
- An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
verb
- To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
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verb
- To plan out a project as a series of major steps.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn/
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He went on till he came to the first milestone, which stood in the bank, half way up a steep hill.
The treatment meted to his manuscript would, if Burton had been a poet of the first order, have drawn tears from a milestone.
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Meanwhile, be content with him: remember that though he cannot see through a milestone yet, he can see farther into one than his neighbours.
“Then tell him to meet you at the second milestone out of Zenda tomorrow evening at ten o’clock. Say you’ll be there and will walk home with him.”
The twenty-eighth year, the beginning of the fifth period, is another milestone along the road to development.