post Definition

post¹
noun

1. A shaft or rod fixed upright in the ground, as a support or marker, etc.

Thesaurus: column, pole, pillar, shaft, stake, picket, support, upright, stanchion, strut, pier.
2. A vertical timber supporting a horizontal one. Often in compounds.

Example: a doorpost
Thesaurus: banister, leg, stanchion, newel.
3. An upright pole marking the beginning or end of a race track.
4. A goalpost.

verb posted, posting

1. To put up (a notice, etc) on a post or board, etc for public viewing.

Form: post something up (sometimes)
2. To announce the name of someone among others in a published list.

Example: He was posted missing

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon: from Latin postis a doorpost.

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post²
noun

1. A job.

Example: a teaching post
2. A position to which one is assigned for military duty.

Example: never left his post
3. A settlement or establishment, especially one in a remote area. Often in compounds.

Example: trading-post
Example: military post
4. military.
A bugle call summoning soldiers to their quarters at night. See also the first post, the last post.

verb

posted, posting
1. To station them there on duty; to transfer (personnel) to a new location.

Example: I was posted abroad
Form: post someone to somewhere (usually)
Form: post someone at somewhere
Form: post someone in somewhere

Etymology: 16c: from Italian posto, from Latin postum, from ponere, positum to place.

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post³
noun

1. The official system for the delivery of mail. See also post office.

Thesaurus: mail, mail service (US), postal service, post office, PO.
2. Letters and parcels delivered by this system; mail.
3. A collection of mail, eg from a postbox.

Example: catch the next post
4. A delivery of mail.

Example: came by the second post
5. A place for mail collection; a postbox or post office.

Example: took it to the post
6. historical
Any of a series of riders stationed at various intervals along a route, who carried mail from one stage to another.
7. historical
A stage or station on such a route.
8. Used as a newspaper title.

Example: the Washington Post

verb posted, posting

1. To put (mail) into a postbox; to send something by post.
2a. bookkeeping.
To enter (an item) in a ledger;
2b. bookkeeping.
To update (a ledger).
Form: post up something (now usually)
3. To supply someone with the latest news. See also post¹ verb.

Example: keep us posted

Etymology: 16c: from French poste, from Italian posta, from Latin ponere, positum to place.