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milestone
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Milestone
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mile·stone
/
ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn
/
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[
mahyl
-stohn
]
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noun
1.
a
stone
functioning as a milepost.
2.
a significant event or stage in the life, progress, development, or the like of a person, nation, etc.:
Her getting the
job
of supervisor was a milestone in her career.
Origin:
1740–50;
mile
+
stone
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milestone
(ˈmaɪlˌstəʊn)
—
n
1.
a stone pillar that shows the distance in miles to or from a place
2.
a significant event in life, history, etc
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
milestone
1746, from
mile
+
stone
(n.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
News survey form struck me the same way, as a kind of
milestone
.
Education contributes to learning, which is a
milestone
on the way to wisdom.
It could turn out to be a
milestone
for quantum computing.
Three years later than planned, this
milestone
is likely to be met.
Mapping
milestone
emphasizes complexity of disease.
Milestone
dates in the invention of the astronomical telescope.
Other times, he's funny, wearing a silly-looking birthday hat as he celebrates yet another
milestone
.
It was a
milestone
in the long journey back toward respectability.
He is more or less in denial about this
milestone
, and it suits him.
Once caught and reeled in, these stories get entangled in a net of
milestone
memories.
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