post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: posts
form: poast
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).
Senses: glosses: Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route.
examples: text: a stage or railway post
glosses: A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
examples: text: September 6th.—The English mail of the 10th of July arrived to-day, and while Mr. Hart was at the Foreign Office engaged on business with Wan-se-ang and Hang-Ki, he received his Shang-hai letters, one of which contained the news of the recapture by the Imperial forces of the cities of Woo-tu and Nan-ching, two important rebel posts.
ref: 1865, David Field Rennie, M.D., Peking and the Pekingese, volume II, London: John Murray, page 42:
glosses: A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
examples: text: I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 152:
text: in certain ſet places there be alwaies fresh Poſts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others
ref: 1599, George Abbot, Geography, or a Brief Description of the Whole World:
text: information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin, published 2012, page 199:
glosses: Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
examples: text: sent via post; parcel post
text: I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the common post.
ref: 1707, Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11
glosses: An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
examples: text: Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.
ref: 2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:
glosses: A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
glosses: A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
examples: text: Two of the receivers ran post patterns.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
examples: text: And then in post he came from Mantua.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], line 273:
glosses: Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
examples: text: there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.
ref: 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume 1, page 136:
glosses: One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
Derived terms: block post
blog post
book post
border post
borderpost
bottom-post
by return of post
command post
Cossack post
crosspost
customs post
dark post
Dease Lake Post
flounce post
folio post
ghost post
hardship post
in the post
Job's-post
last post
make post
outpost
parcel post
penny post
pigeon post
pinned post
pneumatic post
post and pair
post bag
postbag
post box
postbox
postboy
post-captain
postcard
post chaise
postcode
post code
post count
post day
post-free
postgasm
postgirl
posthaste
post-haste
posthorn
post horn
posthorse
post-horse
posthouse
post-house
postlady
post lady
postman
postmaster
post note
postoffice
post office
postrider
post-rider
post town
postwoman
pre-to-post
registered post
sentry post
side-post
staging post
stick to one's post
sticky post
take post
top-post
trading post