post office
See also: postoffice
English
Noun
post office (plural post offices)
- A place (building, office, shop, or counter) concerned with the business of delivering letters, post or mail and selling stamps, etc.
- An organisation that delivers letters (for example, Canada Post, Royal Mail, United States Postal Service).
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 16:
- “The post-officeis a wonderful establishment!” said she.—“The regularity and despatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!”
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- (Canada, US) A children's game.
Synonyms
- (place): postal outlet
- (place): postal station (Canadian)
Derived terms
Translations
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