"post lady" meaning in English

See post lady in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: post ladies [plural]
Etymology: From post + lady. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|post|lady}} post + lady Head templates: {{en-noun}} post lady (plural post ladies)
  1. (informal, chiefly British) A female postal worker. Tags: British, informal Categories (topical): Occupations, People, Post Synonyms: mailwoman, mail lady, postwoman, postlady Hypernyms: mail carrier, letter carrier, postal carrier, postal worker, mailperson, postperson
    Sense id: en-post_lady-en-noun-VYOyR9w7 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mailman"
    },
    {
      "word": "postman"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "post",
        "3": "lady"
      },
      "expansion": "post + lady",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From post + lady.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "post ladies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "post lady (plural post ladies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Post",
          "orig": "en:Post",
          "parents": [
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female postal worker."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "mail carrier"
        },
        {
          "word": "letter carrier"
        },
        {
          "word": "postal carrier"
        },
        {
          "word": "postal worker"
        },
        {
          "word": "mailperson"
        },
        {
          "word": "postperson"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-post_lady-en-noun-VYOyR9w7",
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "postal worker",
          "postal worker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, chiefly British) A female postal worker."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mailwoman"
        },
        {
          "word": "mail lady"
        },
        {
          "word": "postwoman"
        },
        {
          "word": "postlady"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "post lady"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mailman"
    },
    {
      "word": "postman"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "post",
        "3": "lady"
      },
      "expansion": "post + lady",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From post + lady.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "post ladies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "post lady (plural post ladies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "mail carrier"
    },
    {
      "word": "letter carrier"
    },
    {
      "word": "postal carrier"
    },
    {
      "word": "postal worker"
    },
    {
      "word": "mailperson"
    },
    {
      "word": "postperson"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Occupations",
        "en:People",
        "en:Post"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female postal worker."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "postal worker",
          "postal worker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, chiefly British) A female postal worker."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mailwoman"
    },
    {
      "word": "mail lady"
    },
    {
      "word": "postwoman"
    },
    {
      "word": "postlady"
    }
  ],
  "word": "post lady"
}

Download raw JSONL data for post lady meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.