Jubilee vs Milestone - What's the difference?
jubilee | milestone |
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 120:
A fiftieth anniversary.
(Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome.
A time of celebration or rejoicing.
(obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.5:
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.
An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
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To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
To plan out a project as a series of major steps.
As nouns the difference between jubilee and milestone
is that jubilee is a special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free while milestone is 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.As a verb milestone is
to place milestones along (a road, etc.).jubilee
English
(wikipedia jubilee)Alternative forms
* jubileNoun
(en noun)- in the old Israel, there had supposedly been a system of ‘Jubilee ’, a year in which all land should go back to the family to which it had originally belonged and during which all slaves should be released.
- How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede [...] that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.
Derived terms
* silver jubileeReferences
milestone
English
(wikipedia milestone)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
