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POST OFFICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("post office" is a kind of...):
child's game (a game enjoyed by children)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
Synonyms:
PO; Post Office; United States Post Office; US Post Office
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Post Office" is a kind of...):
independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A local branch where postal services are available
Synonyms:
local post office; post office
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("post office" is a kind of...):
arm; branch; subdivision (a division of some larger or more complex organization)
Meronyms (parts of "post office"):
general delivery; poste restante (the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it)
Context examples:
I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my gratitude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and every convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
This much-enduring man had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a long and stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscated novels and newspapers, had suppressed a private post office, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames, and caricatures, and done all that one man could do to keep half a hundred rebellious girls in order.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
