milestone
/ˈmaɪlˌstoʊn/
noun
- An important event or achievement in a process or development.
- The company celebrated a milestone of selling one million products.
- Learning to ride a bike is a milestone for many children.
- Graduating from college was a major milestone in her life.
- A stone marker by the side of a road that shows the distance to a particular place.
- We stopped at a milestone that said 10 miles to the next town.
- The old milestone on the country road is from the 1800s.
- Hikers used the milestone to track how far they had walked.
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