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mail-lady

mail-lady is the alternative form of mail lady.

Meaning of mail lady

Noun

mail lady (plural mail ladies)

  1. (informal) A female postal worker.
    • The mail lady just arrived...with 3 letters from you which I was cheered to get.1988, Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, page 142

Forms of mail-lady

pluralmail-ladies

Questions about mail-lady

What is mail-lady the alternative form of?
Mail-lady is the alternative form of mail lady.

Words near mail-lady in the dictionary

  1. mail-cheeked
  2. mail-in
  3. mail-in vote
  4. mail-ins
  5. mail-ladies
  6. mail-lady
  7. mail-merge
  8. mail-merged
  9. mail-merges
  10. mail-merging
  11. mail-order

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mail-lady (page history and authors); mail lady (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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