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English
Etymology
From mile + stone. Compare Dutch mijlsteen (“milestone”), German Low German Mielensteen (“milestone”), German Meilenstein (“milestone”), Swedish milsten (“milestone”).
Pronunciation
Noun
milestone (plural milestones)
- A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
- (idiomatic) An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
1933, Stephen Spender, The Funeral:Death is another milestone on their way.
2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 April 2017, page 171:Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
2021 October 20, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 942, page 71:She bought the model as a surprise gift for a friend who is a lifelong HST fan and railwayman, and who will soon be celebrating a milestone birthday.
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Translations
one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: верставы слуп m (vjerstavy slup), кіламетровы слуп m (kilamjetróvy slup), мільны слуп m (milʹny slup), мільны камень m (milʹny kamjenʹ)
- Bulgarian: километричен камък (kilometričen kamǎk)
- Catalan: fita (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 里程碑 (zh) (lǐchéngbēi)
- Czech: milník (cs) m
- Danish: milepæl c
- Dutch: mijlpaal (nl) m, mijlsteen (nl)
- Esperanto: mejloŝtono
- Estonian: verstapost
- Extremaduran: miliáriu
- Finnish: kilometripylväs, kilometritolppa, mailitolppa
- French: borne (fr) f, borne kilométrique (fr) f
- Galician: marco m
- German: Kilometerstein m, Meilenstein (de) m, Postmeilensäule (de) m or f
- Greek: χιλιομετροδείκτης (el) (chiliometrodeíktis)
- Hebrew: אבן מיל (he) f (even mil), אבן דרך (he) f (even derekh)
- Hungarian: kilométerkő (hu), mérföldkő (hu)
- Indonesian: tanggal penting
- Italian: pietra miliare
- Japanese: マイルストーン (ja) (mairusutōn), キロポスト (kiroposuto), 里程標 (ja) (りていひょう, riteihyō)
- Latin: mīlliārium n
- Macedonian: милјоказ m (miljokaz)
- Malayalam: നാഴികക്കല്ല് (ml) (nāḻikakkallŭ)
- Norman: pièrre dé mille f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: milestein m, milepæl (no) m, milepel m, milestolpe m
- Nynorsk: milestein m, milepåle m, milestolpe
- Polish: kamień milowy (pl) m
- Portuguese: marco miliário m, marco miliar
- Russian: ми́льный ка́мень m (mílʹnyj kámenʹ), километро́вый столб m (kilometróvyj stolb)
- Scottish Gaelic: clach-mhìle f
- Serbo-Croatian: miljokaz (sh)
- Slovak: míľnik m
- Spanish: hito (es) m, mojón (es) m, cipo (es)
- Swedish: milsten c, milstolpe (sv) c
- Tagalog: batong-milyahe
- Turkish: kilometre taşı
- Ukrainian: віха f (vixa), мильовий камінь m (mylʹovyj kaminʹ)
- Vietnamese: cột mốc, cây số (vi), cột cây số, cột dặm
- Volapük: liölaston
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important event
- Bulgarian: важно събитие (važno sǎbitie)
- Catalan: fita (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 里程碑 (zh) (lǐchéngbēi)
- Czech: mezník (cs) m, milník (cs) m
- Danish: milepæl c
- Dutch: mijlpaal (nl) m, keerpunt (nl) n
- Esperanto: mejloŝtono
- Finnish: virstanpylväs (fi), merkkipaalu
- French: jalon (fr) m
- Georgian: ნიშანსვეტი (nišansveṭi)
- German: Meilenstein (de) m, Etappenziel (de) n, Markstein (de) m
- Hebrew: אבן דרך (he) f (even derekh)
- Hungarian: mérföldkő (hu)
- Italian: pietra miliare, traguardo (it)
- Japanese: 里程標 (ja) (りていひょう, riteihyō), 画期的出来事 (かっきてきできごと, kakkiteki dekigoto)
- Macedonian: пресвртница f (presvrtnica)
- Malayalam: നാഴികക്കല്ല് (ml) (nāḻikakkallŭ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: milepæl (no) m, milepel m, minestolpe m, milestein m
- Nynorsk: milestolpe m, milepåle m, milestein m
- Polish: kamień milowy (pl) m, milowy krok m
- Portuguese: marco (pt) m
- Russian: ве́ха (ru) f (véxa), эта́п (ru) m (etáp), рубе́ж (ru) m (rubéž)
- Scottish Gaelic: clach-mhìle f
- Serbo-Croatian: prekretnica (sh) f
- Slovak: medzník m
- Spanish: hito (es) m, jalón (es)
- Swedish: milstolpe (sv) c
- Turkish: kilometre taşı
- Vietnamese: mốc (vi)
- Volapük: liölaston
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See also
Verb
milestone (third-person singular simple present milestones, present participle milestoning, simple past and past participle milestoned)
- To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
- (idiomatic) To plan out a project as a series of major steps.
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