Meaning of guidestone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A traditional stone marker providing directions for travellers.
2. Something serving as a guide.
   figuratively

Examples

“Arrived at Wellington's Monument, the way levels over Eaglestone Flat and passes a guidestone […] that is unusual in being inscribed on one face only: Chesterfeild Roade.”

“Now, as a guidestone for modernization of the classical theory of meromorphic functions, a new revolution was born with discovery of two main theorems by R. Nevanlinna in 1925.”

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