Usually means: Delivers mail to your doorstep.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word postman:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. postman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. postman: Merriam-Webster
  3. postman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. postman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. postman: Collins English Dictionary
  6. postman: Vocabulary.com
  7. Postman, postman: Wordnik
  8. postman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. postman: Wiktionary
  10. postman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. postman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. postman: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Postman, postman: Dictionary.com
  14. Postman (band), Postman (disambiguation), Postman, The Postman (film), The Postman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Postman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. postman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. postman: Rhymezone
  18. postman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. postman: FreeDictionary.org
  20. postman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. postman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. postman: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. postman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Postman: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. postman: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postman, the postman: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
letter carrier, mailman, mail carrier, carrier, postal worker, postmaster, postperson, POST, postboy, postwoman, more...

Opposite:
mail carrier, letter carrier, postal worker

Types:
mailman, letter carrier, postal worker, more...

Phrases:
postman problem, Postman Pat, running postman, Chinese postman problem, Neil Postman, more...

Adjectives:
old, local, rural, retired, little, young, twopenny, poor, regular, general, chinese

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Similar:
letter carrier, mailman, mail carrier, carrier, postal worker, postmaster, postperson, POST, postboy, postwoman, more...

Opposite:
mail carrier, letter carrier, postal worker

Types:
mailman, letter carrier, postal worker, more...

Phrases:
postman problem, Postman Pat, running postman, Chinese postman problem, Neil Postman, Please Mr. Postman, The Postman, The Jolly Postman, more...

Adjectives:
old, local, rural, retired, little, young, twopenny, poor, regular, general, chinese

Colors:
    red,     blue,     white,     black,     gray, more...



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