"waypost" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "way + post",
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  "etymology_text": "From way + post.",
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      "form": "wayposts",
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          "ref": "1991, Norman Rush, Mating:",
          "text": "Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.",
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        "A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail."
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          "ref": "1922, Jane Wright McKee, Purposeful handwork:",
          "text": "As society evolves, education must change to keep apace with it, so may this text serve as a waypost, not a goal.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Michael Burleigh, Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror, page 13:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point."
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        "(figuratively) Something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point."
      ],
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  "word": "waypost"
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        "A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail."
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