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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəʊst/
- (General American) enPR: pōst, IPA(key): /poʊst/
- Rhymes: -əʊst
Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. OED indicates there's more to this.
post (plural posts)
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
ram a post into the ground
- (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- A pole in a battery.
- (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- (sports) A goalpost.
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[1]:
But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs:
when God ſends coyne,
I will diſcharge your poaſt
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- ale post
- A-post
- back post
- bedpost
- behind post
- be left at the post
- B-post
- C-post
- deaf as a post
- doorpost
- D-post
- dumb as a post
- far post
- fencepost
- from pillar to post
- from post to pillar
- gatepost
- goalpost
- gradient post
- guarding post
- high-post
- hitching post
- jack post
- king post
- knight of the post
- lamppost
- lamp post
- listening post
- low post
- low post area
- milepost
- mooring post
- near post
- newel post
- observation post
- pencil-post bed
- pip at the post
- pip to the post
- pissing post
- plucking post
- poster
- post hanger
- posthole
- post mill
- post mold
- post oak
- post prison
- powder-post
- powder-post beetle
- queen post
- quoin post
- reaching-post
- rubbing post
- Samson post
- scratching post
- seat post
- signalpost
- signal post
- signpost
- snubbing post
- snub post
- sound post
- starting post
- strainer post
- swinging post
- telegraph post
- tool post
- travelling post office
- turning post
- warping post
- whipping post
- whistle post
- winning post
long dowel or plank protruding from the ground
- Albanian: shtyllë (sq) f
- Arabic: عَمُود m (ʕamūd)
- Assamese: খুঁটা (khũta)
- Azerbaijani: sütun (az), dirək (az)
- Bashkir: бағана (bağana); баған (bağan) (Eastern Bashkir)
- Belarusian: слуп m (slup)
- Breton: post (br) m, peul (br) m
- Bulgarian: стълб (bg) m (stǎlb)
- Burmese: တိုင် (my) (tuing)
- Chinese:
- Czech: sloup (cs) m
- Danish: stolpe (da) c
- Dutch: paal (nl) m
- Esperanto: fosto
- Estonian: tulp, post (et)
- Finnish: tolppa (fi)
- French: poteau (fr) m
- German: Pfosten (de) m
- Greek: στύλος (el) m (stýlos), πάσσαλος (el) m (pássalos), κολώνα (el) f (kolóna), δοκάρι (el) n (dokári)
- Hindi: खंभा (hi) m (khambhā), स्तंभ (hi) m (stambh)
- Hungarian: oszlop (hu)
- Ilocano: adigi
- Irish: cuaille m
- Isnag: adixi
- Italian: palo (it) m, pilastro (it) m
- Japanese: 柱 (ja) (はしら, hashira)
- Javanese: saka
- Kazakh: бағана (bağana)
- Khmer: បង្គោល (km) (bɑngkool), សសរ (km) (sɑsɑɑ)
- Korean: 기둥 (ko) (gidung)
- Kyrgyz: столб (ky) (stolb), түркүк (ky) (türkük), устун (ky) (ustun), карагай (ky) (karagay), багана (ky) (bagana)
- Lao: ສະດົມ (sa dom), ເສົາ (lo) (sao)
- Latin: pālus m, stipes m, cippus m
- Latvian: stabs m
- Lithuanian: stulpas m
- Macedonian: дирек m (direk), столб m (stolb), кол m (kol)
- Malay: tiang (ms)
- Malayalam: പോസ്റ്റ് (ml) (pōsṟṟŭ), കുറ്റി (ml) (kuṟṟi)
- Mansaka: arigi
- Maori: turi (mi), pou, turu, tuturu, koteo, himu
- Mongolian: багана (mn) (bagana)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: pal (oc) m, postèl m
- Old Javanese: saka
- Ottoman Turkish: دیرك (direk), مرتك (mertek)
- Persian: ستون (fa) (sotun)
- Plautdietsch: Pol m
- Polish: słup (pl) m
- Portuguese: mourão (pt) m (of a fence), estaca (pt) f (small), poste (pt) m (big)
- Romanian: stâlp (ro) m
- Russian: столб (ru) m (stolb)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: လၵ်း (shn) (lák)
- Slovak: stĺp m
- Slovene: steber (sl) m, stolp (sl) m
- Spanish: poste (es) m
- Swedish: påle (sv) c, stolpe (sv) c, grindstolpe c
- Tajik: сутун (tg) (sutun)
- Tatar: багана (tt) (bağana)
- Thai: สดมภ์ (th) (sà-dom), เสา (th) (sǎo), หลัก (th) (làk)
- Tocharian B: esale
- Turkish: direk (tr), kazık (tr), sütun (tr)
- Turkmen: sütün, gazyk
- Ukrainian: стовп m (stovp)
- Urdu: ستون (sutūn)
- Uyghur: تىرەك (tirek)
- Uzbek: ustun (uz)
- Vietnamese: cột (vi), trụ (vi)
(construction) stud; two-by-four
(vocal music, eps. a cappella) prolonged final melody note
goalpost (sports)
post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)
- (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
Post no bills.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
to post someone for cowardice
1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13:
On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow
Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.
- (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 18:
You have not poſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
1872 March 2, “Interviewing a Prince”, in Saturday Review, volume 33, number 853, London, page 273:
thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day
- (transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.
- (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.
- (law) To pay bail.
to post bail
2022 January 1, Paul Bergman, Sara J. Berman, The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System, Nolo, →ISBN:
For example, if the police or court sets bail at $1,000, and a suspect owns a fancy watch worth at least that amount, the defendant may be able to use the watch to post bail.
2010 May 18, David Andrew Schultz, Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:
Because wealthy defendants are better positioned to post bail or provide collateral, the American bail system has been criticized as being biased against the poor.
2006 05, Robert Perry, Dirty Money, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 34:
Carmen posted a $15,000 bond, and like the other Valenzuelas before her, failed to appear for trial. Morgan's scorecard for case 4: 4.4 pounds seized, 2 Valenzuelas arrested, 1 Valenzuela dismissed, 1 bail jump.
1996, Lee N. June, Matthew Parker, Men to Men: Perspectives of Sixteen African-American Christian Men, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 201:
When you post bail, and the case is over, the court system will take 30 percent of that bail which, in this example, will be $3,000 of the original 10 percent that you posted. Hence, you will get $7,000 back.
- (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
- Chinese: po
hang a notice in a conspicuous manner
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: зака́чам обя́ва (zakáčam objáva)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: alglui, afiŝi
- Finnish: laittaa esille, ripustaa nähtäville
- French: afficher (fr)
- German: anbringen (de)
- Khmer: បិទប្រកាស (bet prɑkaah)
- Polish: wywiesić (pl), afiszować (pl)
- Russian: приколо́ть (ru) pf (prikolótʹ), прика́лывать (ru) pf (prikályvatʹ), вы́весить (ru) pf (vývesitʹ), выве́шивать (ru) impf (vyvéšivatʹ)
- Spanish: colgar (es), fijar (es)
- Swedish: anslå (sv), sätta upp (sv), spika (sv), skriva (sv)
- Tagalog: magpaskil
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: виві́шувати impf (vyvíšuvaty)
- Vietnamese: dán (vi)
send to an electronic forum
- Bulgarian: по́ствам (bg) impf (póstvam)
- Finnish: postata (fi)
- French: poster (fr)
- German: posten (de), hochladen (de)
- Greek: αναρτώ (el) (anartó), δημοσιεύω (el) (dimosiévo)
- Interlingua: postar
- Italian: postare (it), pubblicare (it)
- Japanese: 書き込む (ja) (かきこむ, kakikomu)
- Macedonian: објави pf (objavi)
- Norman: poster
- Polish: publikować (pl) impf, opublikować (pl) pf, postować (pl) impf (slang)
- Portuguese: postar (pt), publicar (pt)
- Russian: по́стить (ru) impf (póstitʹ), запо́стить (ru) pf (zapóstitʹ)
- Spanish: postear (es)
- Swahili: posti
- Swedish: posta (sv), skriva (sv), skicka (sv)
- Ukrainian: роби́ти до́пис impf (robýty dópys), допи́сувати impf (dopýsuvaty)
- Vietnamese: đăng (vi)
Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).
post (plural posts)
- (obsolete) 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. [16th–17th c.]
- (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
a stage or railway post
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. [from 16th c.]
1599, George Abbot, Geography, or a Brief Description of the Whole World:
in certain ſet places there be alwaies fresh Poſts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others
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:
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post.
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin, published 2012, page 199:
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.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. [from 17th c.]
- sent via post; parcel post
- 1707, Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11
- 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.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]
2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:
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.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
- (American football) 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.
Two of the receivers ran post patterns.
- (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
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:
And then in post he came from Mantua.
- (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume 1, page 136:
there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.
- block post
- blog post
- book post
- border post
- borderpost
- bottom-post
- by return of post
- command post
- Cossack post
- crosspost
- customs post
- dark 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
- postbag
- post bag
- postbox
- post box
- postboy
- post-captain
- postcard
- post chaise
- post code
- postcode
- post count
- post day
- post-free
- postgasm
- postgirl
- post-haste
- posthaste
- post horn
- posthorn
- posthorse
- post-horse
- posthouse
- post-house
- postlady
- post lady
- postman
- postmaster
- post note
- post office
- postoffice
- post-rider
- postrider
- 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
method of delivering mail
- Albanian: postë (sq) f
- Amharic: ፖስታ (posta), ደብዳቤ (däbdabe)
- Arabic: بَرِيد m (barīd)
- Armenian: փոստ (hy) (pʻost)
- Azerbaijani: poçta, yam
- Belarusian: по́шта f (póšta)
- Bulgarian: по́ща (bg) f (póšta)
- Catalan: correu (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: pošta (cs) f
- Danish: post (da) c
- Dutch: post (nl) f
- Estonian: post (et)
- Finnish: posti (fi)
- French: courrier (fr), poste (fr) f
- Fula:
- Georgian: ფოსტა (posṭa)
- German: Post (de) f
- Greek: ταχυδρομείο (el) n (tachydromeío)
- Hebrew: דואר \ דֹּאַר (he) m (dóar)
- Hindi: डाक (hi) f (ḍāk)
- Hungarian: posta (hu)
- Icelandic: póstur (is) m
- Ingrian: posti
- Italian: posta (it) f
- Japanese: 郵便 (ja) (ゆうびん, yūbin)
- Kazakh: пошта (poşta)
- Khmer: ប្រៃសណីយ៍ (km) (praysaʼnii)
- Korean: 우편(郵便) (ko) (upyeon)
- Kyrgyz: почта (ky) (pocta)
- Lao: ໄປສະນີ (pai sa nī)
- Latvian: pasts m
- Lithuanian: paštas (lt) m
- Macedonian: пошта f (pošta)
- Malay: pos
- Maori: pōhi
- Mòcheno: post f
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: ډاګ m (ḍāg), پوسته (ps) f (posta)
- Persian: پست (fa) (post)
- Plautdietsch: Post f
- Polish: poczta (pl) f
- Portuguese: correio (pt) m, postagem (pt) f
- Romanian: poștă (ro) f
- Russian: по́чта (ru) f (póčta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: pošta f
- Slovene: pošta (sl) f
- Spanish: correo (es) m
- Swedish: post (sv) c
- Tajik: почта (tg) (počta)
- Thai: ไปรษณีย์ (th) (bprai-sà-nii)
- Turkish: posta (tr)
- Turkmen: poçta
- Ukrainian: по́шта (uk) f (póšta)
- Urdu: ڈاک f (ḍāk)
- Uyghur: پوچتا (pochta)
- Uzbek: pochta (uz)
- Vietnamese: bưu điện (vi), bưu chính (vi)
- Yiddish: פּאָסט f or n (post)
individual message in a forum
- Armenian: հանրագիր (hy) (hanragir)
- Azerbaijani: paylaşım
- Bulgarian: пост (bg) m (post), мне́ние (bg) n (mnénie) (in forums)
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: afiŝo
- Finnish: viesti (fi), postaus (fi)
- French: message (fr) m, billet (fr) m
- German: Beitrag (de) m
- Greek: ανάρτηση (el) f (anártisi)
- Hungarian: poszt (hu)
- Indonesian: kiriman (id)
- Japanese: 書き込み (ja) (かきこみ, kakikomi), カキコ (kakiko) (slang)
- Korean: (please verify) 게시물 (gesimul)
- Malay: kiriman
- Polish: post (pl) m, wypowiedź (pl) f, wiadomość (pl) f, wpis (pl) m
- Portuguese: post (pt) m, publicação (pt)
- Russian: сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije), (colloquial) пост (ru) m (post)
- Swedish: postning c, meddelande (sv) n, inlägg (sv) n
- Turkish: paylaşım (tr)
- Ukrainian: повідо́млення n (povidómlennja), пост m (post), до́пис m (dópys)
- Vietnamese: bài đăng
post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. [from 16th c.]
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].
- To travel quickly; to hurry. [from 16th c.]
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], line 1:
Post speedily to my lord your husband.
- c. 1652, John Milton, "On His Blindness", line 13
- thousand at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- thousand at his bidding speed,
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]
Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.
- (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. [from 19th c.]
- (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.
- → Finnish: postata
send mail
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: пращам (bg) (praštam)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: posten (nl), op de post doen, versturen (nl), verzenden (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: lähettää (fi), postittaa (fi)
- French: poster (fr), mettre à la poste
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: schicken (de)
- Greek: ταχυδρομώ (el) (tachydromó)
- Hungarian: felad (hu), elküld (hu)
- Interlingua: postar
- Khmer: ផ្ញើសំបុត្រ (pɲaə sɑmbot)
- Maori: pōhi
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: wysłać (pl) pf, wysyłać (pl) impf
- Portuguese: postar (pt), publicar (pt)
- Russian: посыла́ть (ru) impf (posylátʹ), посла́ть (ru) pf (poslátʹ)
- Spanish: enviar (por correo)
- Swedish: posta (sv), skicka (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: gửi (vi), gởi (vi)
(Internet) publish a message
- Arabic:
- South Levantine Arabic: نشر (našar)
- Bulgarian: публикувам (bg) (publikuvam)
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: afiŝi
- Finnish: lähettää (fi), julkaista (fi), postata (fi)
- French: poster (fr), publier (fr)
- German: posten (de)
- Icelandic: pósta
- Interlingua: postar
- Norwegian: legge ut
- Portuguese: postar (pt)
- Russian: помеща́ть сообще́ние impf (pomeščátʹ soobščénije), помести́ть сообще́ние pf (pomestítʹ soobščénije), по́стить (ru) impf (póstitʹ), пости́ть (ru) impf (postítʹ), запости́ть (ru) pf (zapostítʹ)
- Spanish: postear (es)
- Swedish: posta (sv), skicka (sv), skriva (sv), lägga upp (sv)
- Ukrainian: публікува́ти до́пис impf (publikuváty dópys)
- Vietnamese: đăng (vi)
post (not comparable)
- With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
His highness comes post from Marseilles,
1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
We therefore determined to change Horses at the next Town and to travel Post the remainder of the Journey.
- Sent via the postal service.
- German: posten
with the post, on post horses; express, with speed
sent via the postal service
post (plural posts)
- An assigned station; a guard post.
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
See Etymology 2.
assigned station
- Belarusian: пост m (post)
- Bulgarian: пост (bg) m (post)
- Danish: post (da) c
- Esperanto: posteno
- Estonian: punkt (et)
- Finnish: piste (fi), vartiopaikka (fi)
- French: poste (fr) m
- German: Stelle (de) f, Posten (de) m
- Greek: θέση (el) f (thési)
- Indonesian: pos (id)
- Maori: putaanga
- Portuguese: posto (pt) m
- Russian: пост (ru) m (post)
- Swedish: vaktpost c, postering (sv) c, post (sv) c, kur (sv) c, vaktkur c
- Ukrainian: пост m (post)
appointed position in an organization
- Belarusian: паса́да f (pasáda), пост m (post)
- Bulgarian: длъ́жност (bg) f (dlǎ́žnost), пост (bg) m (post)
- Finnish: posti (fi), toimi (fi)
- Georgian: პოსტი (ṗosṭi), თანამდებობა (tanamdeboba)
- German: Stelle (de) f, Posten (de) m
- Khmer: តំណែង (km) (tɑmnaeng)
- Lao: ຕຳແໜ່ງ (tam nǣng)
- Macedonian: должност f (dolžnost)
- Malay: jawatan (ms)
- Polish: posada (pl) f
- Portuguese: posto (pt) m, cargo (pt) m, função (pt) f
- Russian: до́лжность (ru) f (dólžnostʹ), пост (ru) m (post)
- Thai: ตำแหน่ง (th) (dtam-nɛ̀ng)
- Ukrainian: пост m (post), поса́да f (posáda)
post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
Post a sentinel in front of the door.
1839 September, Thomas De Quincey, “Early Memorials of Grasmere”, in Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 116:
[I]t might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant that had passed as master and commander, or to get him "posted"— […]
post
- After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
2008, Michael Tomasky, “Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show”, in The Guardian[3]:
One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.
2008, Matthew Stevens, “Lew pressured to reveal what he knows”, in The Australian[4]:
Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.
post (uncountable)
- (film, informal) Post-production.
we'll fix it in post
2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image:
Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.
Clipping of post mortem.
post (plural posts)
- (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent, page 306:
I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.
post f (plural posts or postes)
Inherited from Vulgar Latin postus, from positus.
post m (plural posts or postos)
post (feminine posta, masculine plural posts or postos, feminine plural postes)
- past participle of pondre
- “post” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
post f (Luserna)
- post (method of delivering mail)
- post office
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
post m (plural postow)
- post (method of sending mail)
Via French poste m from Italian posto (“post, location”), from Latin positus (“position”), from the verb pōnō (“to place”).
post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)
- post (position, job)
Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of pōnō (“to place”).
post c (singular definite posten, not used in plural form)
- post, mail (letters or packages)
- post, mail (a public institution distributing letters or packages)
- postman (a person carrying letters or packages)
Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of pōnō (“to place”).
post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)
- entry (in a budget)
Via Middle Low German post from Latin postis (“post, door-post”).
Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta.
post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)
- a mail office, a post office
- exprespost
- kabouterpost
- luchtpost
- pakketpost
- postaal
- postadres
- postauto
- postbeambte
- postbedrijf
- postblad
- postbode
- postboot
- postbrief
- postbus
- postcode
- postdienst
- postduif
- posterij
- posthoorn
- postkantoor
- postkoets
- postorder
- postpakket
- postpapier
- poststuk
- posttarief
- posttrein
- postverkeer
- postvlucht
- postwaardestuk
- postweg
- postwezen
- postwissel
- postzak
- postzegel
- streekpost
- veldpost
- zeepost
Borrowed from French poste, from Italian posto.
post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)
- a location or station, where a soldier is supposed to be; position
- a [[]]post, a position, an office
- Toekomstig Amerikaans president Barack Obama maakt zijn keuzes bekend voor de posten binnen zijn kabinet op het gebied van veiligheid en buitenlands beleid. — President elect Barack Obama makes his choices known for the posts within his cabinet in the area of security and exterior policy. (nl.wikipedia, 12/3/2008)
- Afrikaans: pos
- → Indonesian: pos
- → Saramaccan: pósu
- → Sranan Tongo: postu
- → Caribbean Javanese: postu
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
post
- inflection of posten:
post
post m (plural posts)
post
- inflection of posen:
- singular imperative of posten
post m (genitive singular poist, nominative plural poist)
- timber post, stake
- (historical) post, letter carrier; (letter) post; postman
- (military) post
- post, job (of employment)
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
post | phost | bpost |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “post”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “post”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “post”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Unadapted borrowing from English post.
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔst/, /ˈpost/, (careful style) /ˈpowst/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔst, -ost, (careful style) -owst
- Hyphenation: pòst, póst
post m (invariable)
- ^ post in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
From earlier poste, from Proto-Italic *posti, from Proto-Indo-European *pósti, from *pós. Related to pōne.
The accusative is from analogy with ante or inherited like Ancient Greek πρός (prós) with the same metaphor.
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /post/, [pɔs̠t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /post/, [pɔst̪]
post (+ accusative)
post (not comparable)
- behind, back, backwards (of space)
- afterwards, after (of time)
- →? Albanian: poshtë
- Aromanian: apoi
- Asturian: pues
- Catalan: puix
- → English: post-
- Franco-Provençal: pués, pi, pu, pè
- French: puis, post-
- Galician: pois, despois, pus
- Istriot: puoi
- Italian: poi, dopo, pos-, post-
- Mirandese: pus
- Portuguese: pois, depois, após, pos-, pós-
- Romanian: păi, apoi
- Spanish: pues, después, pos-, post-
- Venetian: po, può
- "post", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "post", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- post in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- post in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 841
post (transitive, 1st conjugation, present pošu, pos, poš, past posu)
post f
- post (method of delivering mail)
- post office
- “post” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
post m
Derived from Italian posta (in the given sense).
post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural poster, definite plural postene)
- “post” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Derived from Italian posta (in this sense).
post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural postar, definite plural postane)
- “post” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Borrowed from Latin postis (“post, pedestal”).
post m
- post
- pedestal
Declension of post (strong a-stem)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postъ.
post m inan
- fast (the act or practice of abstaining from food)
- fast (the period of time during which one abstains from food)
post m animal
- post (message)
Unadapted borrowing from English post.
post m (plural posts)
- (Internet slang) post (an individual message in an on-line discussion)
- Synonyms: publicação, postagem
Derived from Proto-Slavic *postъ.
post n (plural posturi)
post n (plural posturi)
post m (genitive singular puist, plural puist)
- post, mail
- Alternative form of posta
- post, stake
- letter carrier
- Synonym: posta
post (past phost, future postaidh, verbal noun postadh, past participle poste)
- post, mail
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
---|---|
Radical | Lenition |
post | phost |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postъ.
pȏst m (Cyrillic spelling по̑ст)
pȍst m inan
- fast (the act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food)
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | ||
---|---|---|
nominative | pòst | |
genitive | pôsta | |
singular | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
pòst | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
pôsta | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
pôstu | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
pòst | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
pôstu | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
pôstom |
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Borrowed from English post. Doublet of puesto.
post m (plural posts)
post c
- postal office; an organization delivering mail and parcels
- (uncountable) mail; collectively for things sent through a post office
- item of a list or on an agenda
- post; an assigned station
- position to which someone may be assigned or elected
Posten som ordförande i idrottsföreningen är vakant.
- The position as chairman in the sports association is free.
Declension of post | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | post | posten | poster | posterna |
Genitive | posts | postens | posters | posternas |
Derived from Ottoman Turkish پوست, borrowed from Persian پوست (skin).[1]
post (definite accusative postu, plural postlar)
- fur, hide, pelt
- (Islam, Sufism, figuratively, by extension from the pelt used as sitting mat) The position of Sheikhdom in tariqas.
- (figuratively) A position, an office, a chair.
- (figuratively) One's life; hide, ass, heinie.
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | post | |
Definite accusative | postu | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | post | postlar |
Definite accusative | postu | postları |
Dative | posta | postlara |
Locative | postta | postlarda |
Ablative | posttan | postlardan |
Genitive | postun | postların |
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “post1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “post”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /poːsd/, [pʰoːst]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /pɔsd/, [pʰɔst]
post m (uncountable)
- post, mail
post m (plural pyst)
- mynegbost (“signpost”)