signpost
noun
sign·post
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Definition of signpost
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
: a post (as at the fork of a road) with signs on it to direct travelers
3
: sign, indication
signpost
verb
signposted;
signposting;
signposts
Definition of signpost (Entry 2 of 2)
: to provide with or as if with signposts or guides
Examples of signpost in a Sentence
Noun
The signpost says it is 10 miles to the city.Verb
The road from here to London is well signposted.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
All three restaurant names can be seen in the signpost out front. — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, "Steve’s Doghouse: Northeast Ohio’s best weekend brunches, breakfasts," 24 Aug. 2019 So the runes end up working more as blatant signposts than hints. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Midsommar Is a Nightmare in Broad Daylight," 5 July 2019 Everest has so much garbage — depleted oxygen cylinders, food packaging, rope — that climbers use the trash as a kind of signpost. — Washington Post, "30 tents abandoned by climbers add to trash pile on Everest," 24 June 2019 Soon after, Tennessee and Nebraska began their long descent into what has become a humbling two decades, and that Orange Bowl now serves as a signpost to a bygone era for both programs. — Los Angeles Times, "College football 2019: Which traditional power with a second-year coach will rise?," 16 Aug. 2019 Angola’s place atop the rankings was often used as a signpost of its stark inequality at home despite vast oil riches. — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, "Angola has become a much cheaper country for foreign expats—but not for locals," 9 Aug. 2019 As curious as these objects may be, scientists already point to the appearance of plastics in this form as a signpost for the beginning of the Anthropocene epoch, an age in which humanity’s imprint on the natural world is indisputable. — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, "How plastic turns into rocks and ends up on our beaches," 8 Aug. 2019 For hours, young people rammed metal carts and street signposts into the tempered glass doors and windows of the territory’s lawmaking chamber as police stood by and then retreated. — Suzanne Sataline, The Christian Science Monitor, "Hong Kong protests: Is anyone in charge?," 9 July 2019 The detailed cake features the restaurant's exterior, the Waffle House's signature black-and-yellow signpost, and the couple standing, arms entwined, outside the beloved Southern eatery. — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, "New Orleans Bakery Makes Couple the Most Amazing Waffle House-Themed Wedding Cake," 1 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
In 2015 district health authorities finally responded to community complaints to close the centre but Bach then secured a partnership with a public health centre in another district of Mayuge where the Serving His Children signpost is seen now. — Rosebell Kagumire, Quartz Africa, "Ugandan mothers want justice for their children who died in care of an unlicensed American health worker," 17 Aug. 2019 From Poland to Colombia to Australia, thousands of young people have spent their Fridays striking in the name of climate change, signposting their activism with the hashtag #FridaysforFuture. — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, "These young activists are striking to save their planet from climate change," 13 Mar. 2019 First, be warned that Simple includes a not-so-simple code in which different letters signpost different qualities in the recipes. — Chloe Schama, Vogue, "Putting Ottolenghi’s New Cookbook, Simple, to the Test," 4 Oct. 2018 In this decade, when a TV show has done an episode satirizing rom-com tropes, the way Community or Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 did over the course of their runs, those episodes have usually involved signposting a fake relationship. — Constance Grady, Vox, "To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before," 25 Aug. 2018 The caves are signposted with warnings to not enter near the monsoon season. — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, "Divers rescue more boys from flooded Thailand cave, raising total saved to eight, while four boys and coach remain trapped," 9 July 2018 These are the kind of choices that signpost personality. — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, "Miss America Gets to Dress Herself," 9 June 2018 In a paper published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers may have found a hormone that signposts autism by studying rhesus macaque monkeys. — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, "Scientists May Have Found a Signpost for Autism in Monkeys," 6 May 2018 Younger audiences might be aghast at some of the old-school sexist attitudes that prevailed at the time, and the filmmakers do a great job at using this one-of-a-kind event to signpost certain advances through the prism of the sports world. — Todd Mccarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Battle of the Sexes': Film Review | Telluride 2017," 3 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'signpost.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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signpost
noun
English Language Learners Definition of signpost
(Entry 1 of 2)
: a sign beside a road showing the direction and distance to a place
signpost
verbEnglish Language Learners Definition of signpost (Entry 2 of 2)
chiefly British
: to provide (something) with signposts or guides
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signpost
noun
sign·post
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Kids Definition of signpost
: a post with a sign or signs (as for directing travelers)