SIGNPOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does signpost mean? 

• SIGNPOST (noun)
  The noun SIGNPOST has 1 sense:

1. a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way

  Familiarity information: SIGNPOST used as a noun is very rare.

• SIGNPOST (verb)
  The verb SIGNPOST has 1 sense:

1. mark with a signpost, as of a path

  Familiarity information: SIGNPOST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGNPOST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

guidepost; signpost

Hypernyms ("signpost" is a kind of...):

sign (a public display of a message)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "signpost"):

fingerboard; fingerpost (a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger)

Derivation:

signpost (mark with a signpost, as of a path)

• SIGNPOST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they signpost    ... he / she / it signposts   
Past simple: signposted   
Past participle: signposted   
-ing form: signposting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark with a signpost, as of a path

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "signpost" is one way to...):

mark (designate as if by a mark)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

signpost (a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way)

 Context examples 

My dear sir, if you did anything so foolish you would probably enlarge the two limited titles of our village inns by giving us ‘The Dangling Prussian’ as a signpost.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These lakes with steep edges, ramparts and raised rims would be a signpost of periods in Titan's history when there was liquid nitrogen on the surface and in the crust.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)