guidestone
English
Etymology
guide + stone
Noun
guidestone (plural guidestones)
- A traditional stone marker providing directions for travellers.
- 1980, Arthur Edward Dodd, Evelyn Mary Dodd, Peakland Roads and Trackways (page 108)
- Arrived at Wellington's Monument, the way levels over Eaglestone Flat and passes a guidestone […] that is unusual in being inscribed on one face only: Chesterfeild Roade.
- 1980, Arthur Edward Dodd, Evelyn Mary Dodd, Peakland Roads and Trackways (page 108)
- (figurative) Something serving as a guide.
- 1994, Mathematica Japonicae (volume 40, page 18)
- Now, as a guidestone for modernization of the classical theory of meromorphic functions, a new revolution was born with discovery of two main theorems by R. Nevanlinna in 1925.
- 1994, Mathematica Japonicae (volume 40, page 18)