Difference between Milepost and Milestone

What is the difference between Milepost and Milestone?

Milepost as a noun is a post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places while Milestone as a noun is 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.

Milepost

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places

Milestone

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project etc.

Example sentence: Partnering up with the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour marks a milestone moment in my career.

We hope you now know whether to use Milepost or Milestone in your sentence.

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