signpost
pronunciation
How to pronounce signpost in British English:
UK [ˈsaɪnpəʊst]
How to pronounce signpost in American English:
US [ˈsaɪnpoʊst]
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- Noun:
- a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
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- Verb:
- mark with a signpost, as of a path
Word Origin
- signpost (n.)
- also sign-post, 1610s, "sign on a post, usually indicating an inn or shop," from sign (n.) + post (n.1). Meaning "guide- or direction-post along a road" is attested from 1863. Figurative sense is from 1889.
Example
- 1. World 's biggest signpost for nokia
- 2. Then I realised that all the rooms were named similarly , and that the company had commissioned a jokey wooden signpost to help employees navigate their way around .
- 3. There isn 't a signpost or finish line to tell us : " congratulations , you 're now a successful person ! It 's time to rest on your laurels ...... "
- 4. However , gene and signpost travel together from parent to offspring , so the presence of the one can be inferred from the presence of the other .
- 5. And it 's still there , 88 years after it was founded by a. s. neill , tucked away obscurely - without even a signpost - in a small town on the suffolk coast .