POSTMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postman mean? 

• POSTMAN (noun)
  The noun POSTMAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who delivers the mail

  Familiarity information: POSTMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who delivers the mail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

carrier; letter carrier; mail carrier; mailman; postman

Hypernyms ("postman" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

It's our day for a letter, and the postman hasn't been.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He slept heavily all night, and did not stir until aroused by the postman on his morning round.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One evening we were all seated together over a dish of tea when we heard the scrunch of steps outside our door, and there was the postman with a letter in his hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors, and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Whilst he was speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double postman's knock of the telegraph boy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At two o’clock yesterday afternoon a small packet, wrapped in brown paper, was handed in by the postman.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not only was I soon as well known on the Norwood Road as the postmen on that beat, but I pervaded London likewise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I'm sure last winter (it was a very severe one, if you recollect, and when it did not snow, it rained and blew), not a creature but the butcher and postman came to the house, from November till February; and I really got quite melancholy with sitting night after night alone; I had Leah in to read to me sometimes; but I don't think the poor girl liked the task much: she felt it confining.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Day by day he worked on, and day by day the postman delivered to him rejected manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There, the devoted postman on that beat delivered bushels of letters for me; and there, at intervals, I laboured through them, like a Home Secretary of State without the salary.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)