mileposting

M3I1L1E1P3O1S1T1I1N1G2

A form of milepost — A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places.

Scrabble 16
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of milepost

    But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.

    1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217
Cite this entry
APA

mileposting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mileposting

MLA

“mileposting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mileposting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mileposting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mileposting.

Source: mileposting on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.