post

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the delivery and collection of letters and packages

   it came by the first post

2. 2
   noun

   a job in an organization

   The new hire occupied a post in the treasury.

3. 3
   noun

   military installation at which a body of troops is stationed

   this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby

4. 4
   noun

   an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position

   The posts in the ground with strung barbwire made for a cattle fence.

5. 5
   noun

   a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)

   a pair of posts marked the goal

6. 6
   noun

   the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand

   a soldier manned the entrance post

7. 7
   verb

   publicize with, or as if with, a poster

   I'll post the news on the bulletin board

8. 8
   verb

   place so as to be noticed

   post a sign

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English post, from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Old French post (“post, upright beam”), both from Latin postis (“door, post, doorpost”).