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signpost [sahyn-pohst] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- any immediately perceptible indication, obvious clue, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to provide (a place, route, etc.) with signposts.
Origin of signpost First recorded in 1610–20; sign + post1 Examples from the Web for sign-posted Historical Examples of sign-posted
It was not a regular automobile road and was not sign-posted.
The Campfire Girls Go Motoring
Hildegard G. Frey
It is as hard for me to keep on the main track of my story as it was for the Glow-worm to stay on the sign-posted highway.
The Campfire Girls Go Motoring
Hildegard G. Frey
Thus the dark narrow passage-way from the elementary to the higher schools is being widened, lighted, paved and sign-posted.
Scott Nearing
British Dictionary definitions for sign-posted signpost noun
- a post bearing a sign that shows the way, as at a roadside
- something that serves as a clue or indication; sign
verb (tr; usually passive)
- to mark with signposts
- to indicate direction towardsthe camp site is signposted from the road
Word Origin and History for sign-posted 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.