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View synonyms for mailman

mailman

[ meyl-man ]

noun

, plural mail·men.
  1. a person employed by the post office to deliver mail; mail carrier.


mailman

/ ˈmeɪlˌmæn /

noun

  1. another name for postman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mailman1

First recorded in 1860–65; mail 1 + man
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Example Sentences

He added that a mailman told him that no deliveries were made on the days the pantry was open “because of the line of people waiting for food.”

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“This is not the post office of yore, where you could get an address half right, and the mailman will spend half the day trying to figure out who this letter belongs to.”

“Just to think that it happened here, and we have such great neighbors and the mailman.”

The quiet was at times broken by a workman’s hammer, a carpenter’s saw and Ernie, the mailman, who waved and retreated with his bundle into the shade.

Woodberson would like his own drum kit, but his father can barely afford to help feed his four children despite his job as a mailman.

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