Guidestone
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A traditional stone marker providing directions for travellers.
"Arrived at Wellington's Monument, the way levels over Eaglestone Flat and passes a guidestone […] that is unusual in being inscribed on one face only: Chesterfeild Roade."
- 2 Something serving as a guide. figuratively
"Now, as a guidestone for modernization of the classical theory of meromorphic functions, a new revolution was born with discovery of two main theorems by R. Nevanlinna in 1925."
Example
More examples"Arrived at Wellington's Monument, the way levels over Eaglestone Flat and passes a guidestone […] that is unusual in being inscribed on one face only: Chesterfeild Roade."
Etymology
From guide + stone.
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