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guidestone

noun

Etymology

From guide + stone.

  1. derived from *steyh₂-✻ — “to stiffen”
  2. inherited from *stainaz✻ — “stone”
  3. inherited from *stain✻
  4. inherited from stān
  5. inherited from ston
  6. compounded as guidestone — “guide + stone”

Definitions

  1. A traditional stone marker providing directions for travellers.

    • 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.

  2. Something serving as a guide.

    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA