posthouse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A company that carries out post-production.
    — Slow motion, fades, wipes, and text — once only affordable for major broadcasters and posthouses — now allowed DIY video producers a more polished, professional look.
  2. A house at a staging post: an inn with a stable where relays of horses could be changed, for stagecoaches or the mails. historical
    — At each mile there are little guardhouses, where a policeman is stationed; and there is a wooden gong, which by means of concerted signals may be made to convey information over the country with great rapidity. About every six or seven miles is the post-house, where the horses are changed as quickly as were those of the mail in the old coaching days in England.
  3. A building for distributing mail; a post office. obsolete

词形变化

posthouses plural post house alternative post-house alternative

词源

From post + house.
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