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mail·man
/
ˈmeɪlˌmæn
/
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[
meyl
-man
]
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noun,
plural
mail·men.
a person employed by the post office to deliver
mail
;
mail carrier
.
Origin:
1860–65;
mail
1
+
man
1
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mailman
(ˈmeɪlˌmæn)
—
n
,
pl
-men
another name for
postman
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
mailman
1881, from
mail
(1) +
man
(n.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Your committee of decision makers grows wider until you're asking your
mailman
what he thinks.
Now he must be dead fifty years or more, buried in the
mailman
sweater.
The
mailman
brought in a devilish question about breakfast bagels, and a sweet
one about marriage and birthdays.
She has already scanned the
mailman
's eyes and plans to scan the guy who loads
snack machines.
Besides doing the job, it amuses her neighbors and the
mailman
, she says.
Over bad news when the
mailman
drops the letters in the creek.
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