postman

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpəʊs(t)mən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK
    — The total of their members amounts to 342,723 for 1875. Among these number … 6,968 male and sixty-three female postmen, imperial railway, telegraph, and post officials, railway workmen, dependent boatmen, waiters, &c.; …
  2. One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman. England,historical
    — Postman of the Court of Exchequer.

词形变化

postmen plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Chinese postman problem

词源

Etymology tree
English post
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English postman
From post + -man.
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