LETTER CARRIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does letter carrier mean? 

• LETTER CARRIER (noun)
  The noun LETTER CARRIER has 1 sense:

1. a man who delivers the mail

  Familiarity information: LETTER CARRIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LETTER CARRIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who delivers the mail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

carrier; letter carrier; mail carrier; mailman; postman

Hypernyms ("letter carrier" is a kind of...):

deliverer; delivery boy; deliveryman (someone employed to make deliveries)

 Context examples 

"But in the picture there are many sun-dogs, and it comes into my mind to call it 'The Sun- Dog Trail.' It was a long time ago, seven years ago, the fall of '97, when I saw the woman first time. At Lake Linderman I had one canoe, very good Peterborough canoe. I came over Chilcoot Pass with two thousand letters for Dawson. I was letter carrier. Everybody rush to Klondike at that time. Many people on trail. Many people chop down trees and make boats. Last water, snow in the air, snow on the ground, ice on the lake, on the river ice in the eddies. Every day more snow, more ice. Maybe one day, maybe three days, maybe six days, any day maybe freeze-up come, then no more water, all ice, everybody walk, Dawson six hundred miles, long time walk. Boat go very quick. Everybody want to go boat. Everybody say, 'Charley, two hundred dollars you take me in canoe,' 'Charley, three hundred dollars,' 'Charley, four hundred dollars.' I say no, all the time I say no. I am letter carrier.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)