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mile·stone

(mīl′stōn′)

1. A stone marker set up on a roadside to indicate the distance in miles from a given point.

2. An important event, as in a child's development, the history of a nation, or the advancement of knowledge in a field; a turning point.

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milestone

(ˈmaɪlˌstəʊn)

1. (Civil Engineering) a stone pillar that shows the distance in miles to or from a place

2. a significant event in life, history, etc

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mile•stone

(ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn)

n.

1. a stone functioning as a milepost.

2. a significant event or point in development.

[1740–50]

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Noun	1.	milestone - stone post at side of a road to show distances milepost marking, mark, marker - a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep"
	2.	milestone - a significant event in your life (or in a project) juncture, occasion - an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"

Translations

حادِث مُهِم، نُقْطَه هامَّه

milník

kilometerstenmilepæl

Meilenstein Kilometerstein

hito

borneborne milliaireborne routière jalon

mérföldkő

mílusteinntímamót

pietra miliare

kilometerstolpe milestolpe

веха

míľnik

çok önemli olaydönüm noktasıtaşı

里程碑重大事件

milestone

[ˈmaɪlstəʊn] N

1. (on road) → mojón m

2. (fig) → hito m
these events are milestones in our history → estos acontecimientos marcan un hito en or de nuestra historia

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

milestone

[ˈmaɪlstəʊn] n

(fig) (= important event) → événement m clé
a milestone in the history of broadcasting → un événement clé dans l'histoire de la radio

(on road) → borne f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

milestone

n (lit, fig) → Meilenstein m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

milestone

[ˈmaɪlˌstəʊn] n (also) (fig) → pietra miliare

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mile

(mail) noun

(sometimes abbreviated to m when written) a measure of length equal to 1,760 yards (1.61 km). We walked ten miles today; 70 miles per hour (sometimes written mph); a ten-mile hike.

ˈmilestone noun

1. a stone set up to show distances in miles to various places.

2. a very important event. The discovery of penicillin was a milestone in medical history.

milestone

n hito; developmental — hito del desarrollo

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Another milestone was the departure of the Simpsons from Riverboro, bag and baggage, the banquet lamp being their most conspicuous posses- sion.

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And then they are coming right back to live at Golden Milestone. Won't it be lovely to have Miss Reade always so near us?"

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The guard had just finished an account of a desperate fight which had happened at one of the fairs between the drovers and the farmers with their whips, and the boys with cricket-bats and wickets, which arose out of a playful but objectionable practice of the boys going round to the public-houses and taking the linch-pins out of the wheels of the gigs, and was moralizing upon the way in which the Doctor, "a terrible stern man he'd heard tell," had come down upon several of the performers, "sending three on 'em off next morning in a po-shay with a parish constable," when they turned a corner and neared the milestone, the third from Rugby.

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But when she came to the fourth milestone, the first she had happened to notice among the long grass by the roadside, and read that she was still only four miles beyond Stoniton, her courage sank.

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Only the electric light remained, a milestone on the path of the great human adventure.

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I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it.

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In the matter of the moss rose there is a great deal to be said on both sides!" I might as well (as the Irish say) have whistled jigs to a milestone. Away they went together, fighting the battle of the roses without asking or giving quarter on either side.

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Then he sat down to rest by the side of the milestone, and began to think, for the first time, where he had better go and try to live.

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"It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before Hans had reached the sixth milestone he was so tired that he had to sit down and rest.

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Through the closely fastened windows the prisoner could perceive the houses and the pavement, that was all; but, true Parisian as he was, Bonacieux could recognize every street by the milestones, the signs, and the lamps.

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Along the tedious length of Benvill Lane she began to grow tired, and she leant upon gates and paused by milestones.

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"Five and twenty if it is an inch." Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance.