MILESTONE meaning: Significant achievement marking progress point

We found 41 dictionaries that define the word milestone:

General (30 matching dictionaries)

milestone: Merriam-Webster.com
milestone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
milestone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
milestone: Collins English Dictionary
milestone: Vocabulary.com
Milestone, milestone: Wordnik
milestone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
milestone: Wiktionary
milestone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
milestone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
milestone: Infoplease Dictionary
Milestone, milestone: Dictionary.com
milestone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Milestone (Chrisette Michele album), Milestone (Gideon album), Milestone (Japanese developer), Milestone (Project management), Milestone (developer), Milestone (disambiguation), Milestone (project management), Milestone (song), Milestone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Milestone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
milestone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
milestone: Rhymezone
milestone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
milestone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
milestone: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
milestone: Free Dictionary
milestone: Mnemonic Dictionary
milestone: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
milestone: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)

INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
Milestone: Management Dictionary
Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
Milestone (Road transport), Milestone (transport), milestone: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

I T Glossary (No longer online)
Milestone (Road transport), Milestone (transport), milestone: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

milestone: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

milestone: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

milestone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
milestone: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic) An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
▸ verb:  To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To plan out a project as a series of major steps.

Opposite:

millstone, milldam, millpond

Types:

birth, wedding, graduation, retirement, death, more...

Phrases:

milestone (road transport), milestone (transport), Milestone Media, Lewis Milestone, Milestone Returns, more...

Adjectives:

important, major, significant, first, next, developmental, second, third, historic, roman, fifth

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