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  1. adj. idiomatic On the way; soon to arrive.

Examples

  • “When this one appeared in the post this morning I recognised Madame Pernelle again.””

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  • “This double letter, being duly put in the post according to Mr. Landholm's promise, in the course of time and the post came safe to the Shagarack post-office; from whence it was drawn one evening by its owner, and carried to a little upper room where Rufus sat, or rather stood, at his books.”

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  • “Having sent off the telegram she obtained a letter-card, and wrote immediately, remaining in the post office to do so:”

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  • “They are drawn thither by a vacancy in the post of town-organist.”

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  • “After very careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that a change is desirable in the post of First Sea Lord.”

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pointal
  2. queen-post
  3. gatepost
  4. newel
  5. king-post
  6. express
  7. stake
  8. outpost
  9. fort
  10. garrison
  11. lamp-post
  12. captaincy
  13. captainship
  14. register
  15. teachership
  16. whipping post
  17. winning post
  18. bollard
  19. placard
  20. rudderpost
  21. rudderstock
  22. bitt
  23. chaplaincy
  24. chaplainship
  25. outstation
  26. place
  27. goalpost
  28. hitching post
  29. principalship
  30. stanchion
  31. starting post
  32. timber
  33. lectureship
  34. legateship
  35. legation
  36. lookout
  37. marshalship
  38. Maypole
  39. newel post
  40. observation post
  41. ambassadorship
  42. bridgehead
  43. consulship
  44. corner post
  1. standard
  2. stump
  3. mill-post
  4. post
  5. snubbing-post
  6. stern-frame
  7. overcup-oak
  8. Po
  9. parcel post
  10. joggle-post
  11. post-mortem
  12. swamp-oak
  13. crown-post
  14. hooding end
  15. cossack post
  16. p
  17. post-auger
  18. postillon
  19. scapula superior
  20. scapulare
  21. suprascapular
  22. telegraph-spoon
  23. whistling-board
  24. tool-stock
  25. water-post
  26. waymark
  27. way-post
  28. mail
  29. meeting-post
  30. meta
  31. miter-post
  32. mooring-pall
  33. pink
  34. postboy
  35. postclassic
  36. post-coach
  37. post-exilic
  38. postglacial
  39. posthaste
  40. postman
  41. post-money
  42. postpliocene
  43. post-tibial
  44. post-town
  1. prick-post
  2. railing-post
  3. sampson-post
  4. side-post
  5. snub-post
  6. sounding-post
  7. crane-shaft
  8. distance-judge
  9. guidepost
  10. hand-post
  11. hanging-post
  12. hood-end
  13. horse-post
  14. iron-oak
  15. joggle-piece
  16. joggle-truss
  17. king-piece
  18. king's-piece
  19. post-op
  20. tetherball
  21. quintain
  22. postal service
  23. post hoc
  24. overpost
  25. post-impressionism
  26. post office
  27. rafter
  28. smock mill
  29. sounding post
  30. stall
  31. zip code
  32. autopsy
  33. distance
  34. ex post facto
  35. joggle
  36. loggerhead
  37. office
  38. Pleistocene
  39. postage stamp
  40. postal
  41. post-communion
  42. postilion
  43. postmaster
  44. post-obit
  1. rail-post
  2. rudder
  3. Samson post
  4. stoop
  5. suprascapula
  6. human
  7. pillar-iron
  8. steering-gear
  9. transfer
  10. mail car
  11. mail clerk
  12. mayor
  13. fast
  14. ex post facto law
  15. mast
  16. employment
  17. enterotome
  18. inner post
  19. installation
  20. ineligible
  21. dispost
  22. draft
  23. nixie clerk
  24. main-post
  25. come
  26. dak
  27. to travel by dak
  28. desertion
  29. letter carrier
  30. set
  31. corner
  32. costotome
  33. crotch
  34. crutch
  35. cubism
  36. heelpost
  37. hip
  38. hollow newel
  39. homestretch
  40. jougs
  41. kingtruss
  42. zygomaturus
  43. calx
  44. gradient post
  1. grenadier
  2. forepost
  3. coracoideum
  4. cross-arm
  5. derricking
  6. distance-flag
  7. distance-stand
  8. DP
  9. facer
  10. gaff-string
  11. grade-post
  12. grecostasis
  13. jamb-lining
  14. jib-post
  15. jog
  16. knuckle-post
  17. omolite
  18. omoplata
  19. outfit
  20. paulo-post-future
  21. post horn
  22. post-pump
  23. post-rank
  24. PPS
  25. psorenteria
  26. sentry go
  27. soung
  28. staking-iron
  29. stirrup-plate
  30. supralinear
  31. t-connector
  32. telmatology
  33. thrust-post
  34. tiger-heart
  35. toxon
  36. tuck-plate
  37. velocipede
  38. tackle-post
  39. Tana
  40. tellership
  41. tester-cloth
  42. t-hinge
  43. tip-sled
  44. tomkin-post
  1. trace-loop

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