post·man

1 [pohst-muhn]
noun, plural post·men.
1.
a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
2.
Archaic. a courier.

Origin:
1520–30; post3 + -man


See -man.
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post·man

2 [pohst-muhn]
noun, plural post·men. Old English Law.
a barrister in the Court of Exchequer who had precedence in motions.
Compare tubman.


Origin:
1760–70; post1 + -man

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Postman is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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postman or (feminine) postwoman (ˈpəʊstmən) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -men, -women
a person who carries and delivers mail as a profession
 
postwoman or (feminine) postwoman
 
n

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Example sentences
He was proud she had more friends than a postman with a bag full of welfare
  checks.
And since letters sometimes took months to deliver, the derelict postman would
  have absconded long since, anyway.
The events aren't exactly telegraphed in advance, but delivered slowly by a
  postman with sore feet.
If you notice the picture of the postman on that page, thats basically my
  position.
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