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posts

UK/pəʊsts//poʊsts/

posts is the plural of post.

posts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of post.

Meaning of post

Noun

post (plural posts)

  1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
    • ram a post into the ground
    1. A pole erected to mark a spot.
      • The posts mark the boundaries of the property.
    2. The stakes that mark the beginning or end of a horse race
    3. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
      • when God ſends coyne,
        I will diſcharge your poaſt1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs
    4. A goalpost.
      • But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
    5. A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.

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Noun capitalized: POSTs

POSTs

  1. (plural) plural of POST

Verb capitalized: POSTs

POSTs

  1. (indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of POST

Proper noun capitalized: Posts

Posts

  1. (plural) plural of Post

Phrases with posts

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Words that rhyme with posts

Questions about posts

What is posts the plural of?
Posts is the plural of post.
What part of speech is posts?
Posts can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce posts?
Posts is pronounced /pəʊsts/ (UK).

Words near posts in the dictionary

  1. postrostral
  2. postrotatory
  3. postround
  4. postrubella
  5. postrubeolar
  6. posts
  7. posts and lintels
  8. posts off
  9. posts the coal
  10. posts up
  11. postsaccadic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: posts (page history and authors); POSTs (page history and authors); Posts (page history and authors); post (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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