waypost
nounEtymology From way + post.
1
A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
- Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.1991, Norman Rush, Mating:
2
Figuratively Something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point.
- As society evolves, education must change to keep apace with it, so may this text serve as a waypost, not a goal.1922, Jane Wright McKee, Purposeful handwork:
- The war makes many oblique appearances in a work which, despite its saturation with traditional images, is regarded as a waypost of artistic modernism because of its fashionable anthropological references, jazz-like rhythms and random snatches of the pulsing city's polyphonic argot.2008, Michael Burleigh, Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror, page 13: