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Waypost vs Guidepost - What's the difference?

waypost | guidepost |

As nouns the difference between waypost and guidepost

is that waypost is a sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail while guidepost is a signpost.

waypost

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail
  • * "Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.", Norman Rush, Mating, 1991
  • (figuratively) something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point on that journey
  • * "As society evolves, education must change to keep apace with it, so may this text serve as a waypost, not a goal.", Jane Wright McKee, Purposeful handwork, 1922
  • * "The war makes many oblique appearances in a work which, despite its saturation with traditional images, is regarded as a waypost of artistic modernism because of its fashionable anthropological references, jazz-like rhythms and random snatches of the pulsing city's polyphonic argot." - Michael Burleigh, Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror", 2008, page 13

    • guidepost

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a signpost
  • (by extension) anything that provides guidance; a guideline