All milepost synonyms

noun milepost

• turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
• marker — a person or thing that marks.
• watershed — Chiefly British. the ridge or crest line dividing two drainage areas; water parting; divide.
• turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
• anniversary — An anniversary is a date which is remembered or celebrated because a special event happened on that date in a previous year.
• breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
• landmark — a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
• occasion — a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
• discovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
• affair — If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
• circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
• time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
• moment — an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment.
• scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
• thing — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
• incident — an individual occurrence or event.
• celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
• memorial — something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or a holiday.
• museum — a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.
• milestone — a stone functioning as a milepost.
• tree — Sir Herbert Beerbohm [beer-bohm] /ˈbɪər boʊm/ (Show IPA), (Herbert Beerbohm) 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm.
• monument — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
• benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
• feature — a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
• souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
• mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
• hill — the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
• remnant — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
• blaze — When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly.
• ruins — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
• stage — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
• crisis — A crisis is a situation in which something or someone is affected by one or more very serious problems.
• instant — an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment: They arrived not an instant too soon.
• happening — something that happens; occurrence; event.
• while — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• occurrence — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
• vestige — a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
• stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
• specimen — a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
• trace — either of the two straps, ropes, or chains by which a carriage, wagon, or the like is drawn by a harnessed horse or other draft animal.
• fragment — fragmentation
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• survival — the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
• promontory — a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
• vantage point — a position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective; viewpoint: to survey a valley from the vantage point of a high hill.
• goings-on — conduct or behavior, especially when open to criticism: We had never seen such goings-on as at the last dance.
• sign — a token; indication.