postman
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈpəʊs(t)mən//
Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
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Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
The total of their members amounts to 342,723 for 1875. Among these number … 6,968 male and sixty-three female postmen, imperial railway, telegraph, and post officials, railway workmen, dependent boatmen, waiters, &c.; …
A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance. On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat.
Please, Mr. Postman, look and see / Is there a letter in your bag for me? / Please, please, Mr. Po-o-ostman
The headmistress entered and told the girls "I want you to do everything you can to help the war effort—you are old enough to do it now." The girls changed into women postmen, head waiters, soldiers, landgirls, butchers and carpenters.
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historiqueOne of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sat, the other of the two being the tubman.
Postman of the Court of Exchequer.
Étymologie
Etymology tree English post Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English postman From post + -man.
Formes
- pluriel
- postmen
postman · Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
Postman · A surname.postpone · To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.postponed · Done later than originally planned; delayed.