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posy

/ˈpəʊzi/US/ˈpoʊzi/

posy noun: a flower; a small bouquet; a nosegay.

posy: a flower; a small bouquet; a nosegay
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Noun

posy (plural posies)

  1. A flower; a small bouquet; a nosegay.
    • And I will make thee beds of roses, / And a thousand fragrant posies;c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
    • 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  2. (archaic) A verse of poetry, especially a motto or an inscription on a ring.
    • Is this a Prologue, or the Poeſie of a Ring?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

posy meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

posy in Urdu

posy; bouquet of flowers
دستہ dasta

posy in Bengali

এক গুচ্ছ ফুল, ছোট তোড়া

posy in Telugu

A flower
మంజరి mañjari

posy in Malayalam

bunch (of flowers), bouquet, spray
മുറിച്ചെടുത്ത പൂക്കളുടെ കുല, പൂച്ചെണ്ട്, തളിർക്കുല, വല്ലരം, വല്ലരി, കുസുമമഞ്ജരി
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posy in Kannada
ಪುಷ್ಪಗುಚ್ಛ, ತುರಾಯಿ, ಹೂವಿನ ಕುಚ್ಚು

Forms of posy

pluralposies

Origin of posy

Syncopic form of poesy (“poetry”).

Words formed from posy

Phrases with posy

Words that rhyme with posy

Questions about posy

What does posy mean?
Posy means a flower; a small bouquet; a nosegay.
What is posy in Urdu?
Posy in Urdu is دستہ (dasta). See Posy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is posy?
Posy is a noun.
How do you pronounce posy?
Posy is pronounced /ˈpəʊzi/ (UK).
What is the plural of posy?
The plural of posy is posies.

Words near posy in the dictionary

  1. postzygopophysis
  2. postzygosynapophyseal
  3. postzygotic
  4. postzygotically
  5. posul
  6. posy
  7. posy ring
  8. posy rings
  9. posy sniffer
  10. posy sniffers
  11. posy-sniffer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: posy (page history and authors); دستہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); posy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); posy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); posy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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