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post day

post day noun: the day on which the post is to be collected, or delivered.

Noun

post day (plural post days)

  1. (obsolete) The day on which the post is to be collected, or delivered.
    • The above I writ this morning, before I recollected this was not Post Day, – and all is altered here since […].1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 164
    • ‘But it isn't post-day,’ said Kate;—for the post illuminated Vavasor but three days a week.1864, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

Forms of post day

pluralpost days

Questions about post day

What does post day mean?
Post day means the day on which the post is to be collected, or delivered.
What part of speech is post day?
Post day is a noun.
What is the plural of post day?
The plural of post day is post days.

Words near post day in the dictionary

  1. post codes
  2. post conception
  3. post count
  4. post counts
  5. post Covid
  6. post day
  7. post days
  8. post factum
  9. post festum
  10. post game
  11. post games

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