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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man who carries and delivers mail.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man who delivers the mail. A male mail carrier.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US someone (implied male) who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a man who delivers the mail

Etymologies

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mail +‎ man

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