Antonyms for post
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : pohst |
| Phonetic Transcription : poÊŠst |
Definition of post
Origin :- "a timber set upright," from Old English post "pillar, doorpost," and Old French post "post, upright beam," both from Latin postis "door, post, doorpost," perhaps from por- "forth" (see pro-) + stare "to stand" (see stet). Similar compound in Sanskrit prstham "back, roof, peak," Avestan parshti "back," Greek pastas "porch in front of a house, colonnade," Middle High German virst "ridepole," Lithuanian pirstas, Old Church Slavonic pristu "finger" (PIE *por-st-i-).
- noun upright support
- noun job, employment
- noun lookout, station
- noun mail service
- verb situate, position
- verb advise, inform
- It may be that he can prefer thee to some post about the minster.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Bye and bye the eyes closed, and still clinging to the post, she slept.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- This post was filled in Oldport, in those days, by my cousin Kate.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Do you not intend, Sir, to push his way at court, and obtain for him the post of physician there?
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- As far away from post offices and telegraph offices as possible.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- Crane watched Lauzanne go lazily, sluggishly down to the post for his race.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- We might send him to the post, but that's all the good it'll do us, I'm feared.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- Their horse would go to the post as fit as any thoroughbred had ever stripped.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- This post was a mud-walled enclosure about fifty yards square.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Synonyms for post
- acquaint
- appointment
- apprive
- assign
- assignment
- beat
- berth
- billet
- brief
- clue
- collection
- column
- delivery
- doorpost
- establish
- fill in
- leg
- locate
- locus
- mast
- newel
- notify
- office
- pale
- palisade
- panel
- pedestal
- picket
- pile
- pillar
- place
- PO
- pole
- position
- post office
- postal service
- prop
- put
- put wise to
- rail
- report
- set
- shaft
- situation
- stake
- standard
- station
- stilt
- stock
- stud
- tell
- warn
- whereabouts
- wise up
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