postman

== English == === Etymology === From post + -man. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊs(t)mən/ Hyphenation: post‧man === Noun === postman (plural postmen) (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes. Synonyms: mailman, mail carrier, letter carrier, postal carrier, mailperson, postperson Hyponyms: mailwoman, mail lady, postwoman, post lady 1876–1877, Benjamin Homans (ed.), The Banker's Magazine and Statistical Register. Volume thirty-first, or, Volume eleventh of the third Series. From July, 1876, to June, 1877, inclusive, p. 283: 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.; [...] (England, historical) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === tampons, topsman