road sign

American  

[rohd sahyn] / ˈroʊd ˌsaɪn /

noun

• road signs
  plural

1. a sign posted over or next to a road or highway, as to guide or caution motorists, indicate speed limits or distances, advertise nearby services, etc..

   A road sign showed 150 km to Paris.

   We passed a road sign indicating construction ahead.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• road signs
  plural

Etymology

Origin of road sign

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

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road sign

“It’s heartbreaking because it’s a road sign that we are going backwards.”

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

The best it can do for jokes is endless animal wordplay—a road sign reading “Gnu Jersey,” a bacchanal dubbed “Burning Mammal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

He has collected the autographs of many of the stars on a Brookside Close road sign.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

But the first road sign on the two-lane highway announcing your arrival in the town name-checks only the Lady Giants, the 2021 state champions.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2025

Every conversational and epistolary road sign and guide- post that she had held up before the girls pointed to their father’s final, terrible failure.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole