"milepost" meaning in English

See milepost in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-milepost.wav Forms: mileposts [plural]
Etymology: From mile + post. Etymology templates: {{af|en|mile|post}} mile + post Head templates: {{en-noun}} milepost (plural mileposts)
  1. A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places Translations (post on a highway): kilometripylväs (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-milepost-en-noun-Bc0i9ijn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 25 33 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 38 33 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 23 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 20 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 47 28 25 Disambiguation of 'post on a highway': 90 10
  2. (rail transport) A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line). Categories (topical): Rail transportation, Roads
    Sense id: en-milepost-en-noun-ZIqocINx Disambiguation of Roads: 31 46 23 Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 38 33 29 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-milepost.wav Forms: mileposts [present, singular, third-person], mileposting [participle, present], mileposted [participle, past], mileposted [past]
Etymology: From mile + post. Etymology templates: {{af|en|mile|post}} mile + post Head templates: {{en-verb}} milepost (third-person singular simple present mileposts, present participle mileposting, simple past and past participle mileposted)
  1. To place mileposts along (a road, etc.). Related terms: milestone
    Sense id: en-milepost-en-verb-Z6pOZG3f Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 38 33 29

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mile",
        "3": "post"
      },
      "expansion": "mile + post",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mile + post.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mileposts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "milepost (plural mileposts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 25 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 33 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 23 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 20 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 28 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places"
      ],
      "id": "en-milepost-en-noun-Bc0i9ijn",
      "links": [
        [
          "post",
          "post"
        ],
        [
          "fingerpost",
          "fingerpost"
        ],
        [
          "mile",
          "mile"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "post on a highway",
          "word": "kilometripylväs"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 33 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 46 23",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Roads",
          "orig": "en:Roads",
          "parents": [
            "Road transport",
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:",
          "text": "But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 April 24, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 212:",
          "text": "[...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line)."
      ],
      "id": "en-milepost-en-noun-ZIqocINx",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-milepost.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "milepost"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mile",
        "3": "post"
      },
      "expansion": "mile + post",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mile + post.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mileposts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mileposting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mileposted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mileposted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "milepost (third-person singular simple present mileposts, present participle mileposting, simple past and past participle mileposted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 33 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To place mileposts along (a road, etc.)."
      ],
      "id": "en-milepost-en-verb-Z6pOZG3f",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "milestone"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-milepost.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "milepost"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "en:Roads"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mile",
        "3": "post"
      },
      "expansion": "mile + post",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mile + post.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mileposts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "milepost (plural mileposts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "post",
          "post"
        ],
        [
          "fingerpost",
          "fingerpost"
        ],
        [
          "mile",
          "mile"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:",
          "text": "But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 April 24, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 212:",
          "text": "[...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-milepost.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "post on a highway",
      "word": "kilometripylväs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "milepost"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "en:Roads"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mile",
        "3": "post"
      },
      "expansion": "mile + post",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mile + post.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mileposts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mileposting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mileposted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mileposted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "milepost (third-person singular simple present mileposts, present participle mileposting, simple past and past participle mileposted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "milestone"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To place mileposts along (a road, etc.)."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-milepost.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-milepost.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "milepost"
}

Download raw JSONL data for milepost meaning in English (4.1kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.