Definitions for guidepost

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guidepost guide·post

Spelling: [gahyd-pohst]

IPA: /ˈgaɪdˌpoʊst/

Guidepost is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 492 anagrams from letters in guidepost (degiopstu).

Definitions for guidepost

noun

1. a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
2. anything serving as a guide; guideline.

Origin of guidepost

First recorded in 1755-65; guide + post¹

Examples for guidepost

General Grant was the guidepost of a victorious war, and a landmark of a magnanimous peace.

All language can achieve is to act as a guidepost to the imagination enabling the reader to recreate the author's insight.

Then they walked to the angle of the roads where the guidepost stood.

About half a mile from the town a guidepost and two roads, to Edinburgh and Glasgow; we took the left-hand road, to Glasgow.