guidestone means A traditional stone marker providing directions for travellers. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why “guidestone” is a great word
GUIDESTONE — [Noun] A traditional stone marker that provides direction to travelers, or figuratively, any principle that serves as an orienting guide. From guide (from Old French *guider*, ultimately of Germanic origin) + stone (from Old English *stān*). Unlike a "milestone," which marks a distance passed, or a "beacon," which blazes an urgent signal, a guidestone is a patient, terrestrial sentinel. It is the moss-covered obelisk at a forgotten crossroads, the lichen-spotted monolith on a windswept moor, and the worn maxim one touches in a moment of doubt—a fixed point in a shifting landscape, placed there by someone who knew you would one day be lost.
Etymology
From guide + stone.
noun
- 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.”
- 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.”