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post

noun

  1. message of a user in a forum, newsgroup or social media platform
  2. entry on a social media platform, forum, or blog
  3. vertical rod affixed to the ground
  4. cf report, put up for public view
  5. send via the postal service
L5838 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. send something by mail
  2. publish something online
  3. cf report, put up for public view
  4. tell someone news as it comes in
  5. assign to a post, station somewhere
L5839 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pəʊst/ / /poʊst/ / [poːst]

adv

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

  1. With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.

    His highness comes post from Marseilles,

    In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.

  2. Sent via the postal service.

name

  1. A common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, such as The Washington Post or the New York Post.
  2. A surname.
  3. A village in Iran.
  4. An unincorporated community in Crook County, Oregon, named after Walter H. Post.
  5. A city, the county seat of Garza County, Texas, named after C. W. Post.

noun

  1. Acronym of power-on self-test.

prep

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin postbor. English post Borrowed from Latin post.

  1. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.

    One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.

    Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

verb

  1. To successfully perform a power-on self-test.

    The computer had a bunch of strange components, but it still POSTed so I assumed everything worked.