"postmark" meaning in English

See postmark in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: en-us-postmark.ogg Forms: postmarks [plural]
Etymology: Compound of post + mark. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|post|mark}} post + mark Head templates: {{en-noun}} postmark (plural postmarks)
  1. A marking made by a postal service on a delivery, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, mostly serving to cancel a postage stamp. Categories (topical): Philately Translations (marking made by a postal service on a letter): пощенски печат (poštenski pečat) [masculine] (Bulgarian), poststempel (Danish), poŝtmarko (Esperanto), postileima (Finnish), cachet de la poste [masculine] (French), Poststempel [masculine] (German), bollo postale [masculine] (Italian), annullo postale [masculine] (Italian), timbro postale [masculine] (Italian), pasta zīmogs (Latvian), مهر پست (Persian), carimbo [masculine] (Portuguese), почто́вый ште́мпель (počtóvyj štémpelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), matasellos [masculine] (Spanish), timbre [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-postmark-en-noun-MzWAqtR1 Disambiguation of Philately: 98 2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 85 15

Verb

Audio: en-us-postmark.ogg Forms: postmarks [present, singular, third-person], postmarking [participle, present], postmarked [participle, past], postmarked [past]
Etymology: Compound of post + mark. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|post|mark}} post + mark Head templates: {{en-verb}} postmark (third-person singular simple present postmarks, present participle postmarking, simple past and past participle postmarked)
  1. To apply a postmark on. Translations (to apply a postmark on): afstemple (Danish), leimata (Finnish), stempeln (German), zīmogot (Latvian), штемпелева́ть (štempelevátʹ) (Russian), matasellar (Spanish), matar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-postmark-en-verb-jDyjr16i

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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.