Word.ws English Dictionary

postmasters

postmasters is the plural of postmaster.

Meaning of postmaster

Noun

postmaster (plural postmasters)

  1. The head of a post office.
    • With that, Elvin Mercado became the postmaster of Manhattan, ruling the mails from the palatial James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue.2014 May 14, Andy Newman, “New York Today: Meet Your Postmaster”, in The New York Times
  2. (Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.
  3. (UK) A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
  4. (archaic) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.

Phrases with postmasters

Questions about postmasters

What is postmasters the plural of?
Postmasters is the plural of postmaster.

Words near postmasters in the dictionary

  1. Postmas
  2. postmastectomy
  3. postmaster
  4. postmaster general
  5. Postmaster Generals
  6. postmasters
  7. postmasters general
  8. postmastership
  9. postmasterships
  10. postmastoid
  11. postmatch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: postmasters (page history and authors); postmaster (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “postmasters.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/postmasters. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.