Definitions of post
- A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the Koluschan stock. 2
a. - Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. 2
n. - A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. 2
n. - The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. 2
n. - The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. 2
n. - A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post. 2
n. - A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. 2
n. - The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2
n. - A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. 2
n. - An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. 2
n. - Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. 2
n. - One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. 2
n. - A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. 2
n. - A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper. 2
v. t. - To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. 2
v. t. - To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. 2
v. t. - To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. 2
v. t. - To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. 2
v. t. - To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. 2
v. t. - To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. 2
v. t. - To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. 2
v. i. - To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. 2
v. i. - To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. 2
adv. - With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post. 2
The word "post" uses 4 letters: O P S T.
Direct anagrams of post:
opts pots spot stop tops
Words formed by adding one letter before or after post (in bold), or to opst in any order:
e - estop pesto poets stope topes h - phots tophs i - posit topis l - plots m - stomp o - stoop topos r - ports prost sport strop s - posts spots stops t - stopt u - pouts spout stoup w - stowp y - potsy typos
Shorter words found within post:
op ops opt os pot so sop sot to top
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