Meaning of waypost | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
2. Something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point.
   figuratively

Examples

“Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.”

“As society evolves, education must change to keep apace with it, so may this text serve as a waypost, not a goal.”

“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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