Etymology

milepost

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Today it means: A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places. Full definition →

English post ← Middle English post ← Old French post
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  1. Englishmile
  2. Latinpostis
  3. Old Englishpost
  4. Latinpostis
  5. Old Frenchpost
  6. Middle Englishpost
  7. Englishpost
  8. English todaymilepost

From mile + post.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.