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post house

post house is the alternative form of posthouse.

Meaning of posthouse

Noun

posthouse (plural posthouses)

  1. A company that carries out post-production.
    • Slow motion, fades, wipes, and text — once only affordable for major broadcasters and posthouses — now allowed DIY video producers a more polished, professional look.2013, Jesse Drew, A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media, page 57
  2. (historical) A house at a staging post: an inn with a stable where relays of horses could be changed, for stagecoaches or the mails.
    • At each mile there are little guardhouses, where a policeman is stationed; and there is a wooden gong, which by means of concerted signals may be made to convey information over the country with great rapidity. About every six or seven miles is the post-house, where the horses are changed as...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 157
    Synonyms:
    posting house
  3. (obsolete) A building for distributing mail; a post office.

Origin of post house

From post + house.

Questions about post house

What is post house the alternative form of?
Post house is the alternative form of posthouse.

Words near post house in the dictionary

  1. post hocs
  2. post horn
  3. post horns
  4. post horse
  5. post horses
  6. post house
  7. post ladies
  8. post lady
  9. post meridiem
  10. post mill
  11. post mills

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