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POSTMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who delivers the mail
Synonyms:
carrier; letter carrier; mail carrier; mailman; postman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("postman" is a kind of...):
deliverer; delivery boy; deliveryman (someone employed to make deliveries)
Context examples:
“You’ve seen the postman. It is a pleasure to work with you. Well, here is the lodge, and if you will come up, Colonel, I will show you the scene of the crime.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She rushed to the door when the postman rang, was rude to Mr. Brooke whenever they met, would sit looking at Meg with a woe-begone face, occasionally jumping up to shake and then kiss her in a very mysterious manner.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It travelled across the continent, and after a certain lapse of time the postman returned him the manuscript in another long envelope, on the outside of which were the stamps he had enclosed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
While the visit at the Doctor's was still in progress, I observed that the postman brought two or three letters every morning for Uriah Heep, who remained at Highgate until the rest went back, it being a leisure time; and that these were always directed in a business-like manner by Mr. Micawber, who now assumed a round legal hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To cap misfortune, the postman, in his afternoon round, brought him five returned manuscripts.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A cog must have slipped or an oil-cup run dry, for the postman brought him one morning a short, thin envelope.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He folded the stamps in with his manuscript, dropped it into the letter-box, and from three weeks to a month afterward the postman came up the steps and handed him the manuscript.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On the morning of the sixth day the postman brought him a thin letter from the editor of The Parthenon.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Martin opened it with a premonition of disaster, and read it standing at the open door when he had received it from the postman.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and, a little later, four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby's station wagon, all wet to the skin.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
