Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

waypost

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: way-post
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.

noun

Something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From way + post.

Inflected Forms

wayposts (plural)

Questions

What does waypost mean?: A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
Where does waypost come from?: From way + post.

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