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• poast (obsolete)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊst/
• (General American) enPR: pōst, IPA^(key): /poʊst/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [poːst]
• Rhymes: -əʊst

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. OED indicates there's more to this.

post (plural posts)

1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

   ram a post into the ground

2. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
3. A pole in a battery.
4. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
5. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
6. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
7. (sports) A goalpost.

   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.

8. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
9. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

   • 1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs:

     when God ſends coyne,
     I will diſcharge your poaſt

10. The vertical part of a crochet stitch.

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

   Post no bills.

2. (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.

   The company posted record profits this quarter.

   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order:

     Although New York City preceded many large cities in posting a drop in homicides and other violent offenses in the early 1990s, by the end of the decade it also seemed to be at the forefront of a possible cyclical rebound.

   • 2024 August 23, @jbodineh, Twitter‎^[2]:

     He’s saying if you can’t win, quitting is okay? What would the PGA say if golfers quit the tournament after posting a high score?

3. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

   to post someone for cowardice

   • 1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13:

     On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow
     Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.

4. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.

   • 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 18:

     You have not poſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?

5. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.

   • 1872 March 2, “Interviewing a Prince”, in Saturday Review, volume 33, number 853, London, page 273:

     thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day

6. (transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.
   1. (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).

      Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

   2. (law) To pay bail.

      to post bail

      • 2022 January 1, Paul Bergman, Sara J. Berman, The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System, Nolo, →ISBN:

        For example, if the police or court sets bail at $1,000, and a suspect owns a fancy watch worth at least that amount, the defendant may be able to use the watch to post bail.

      • 2010 May 18, David Andrew Schultz, Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:

        Because wealthy defendants are better positioned to post bail or provide collateral, the American bail system has been criticized as being biased against the poor.

      • 2006 05, Robert Perry, Dirty Money, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 34:

        Carmen posted a $15,000 bond, and like the other Valenzuelas before her, failed to appear for trial. Morgan's scorecard for case 4: 4.4 pounds seized, 2 Valenzuelas arrested, 1 Valenzuela dismissed, 1 bail jump.

      • 1996, Lee N. June, Matthew Parker, Men to Men: Perspectives of Sixteen African-American Christian Men, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 201:

        When you post bail, and the case is over, the court system will take 30 percent of that bail which, in this example, will be $3,000 of the original 10 percent that you posted. Hence, you will get $7,000 back.

• Chinese: po

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

post (plural posts)

1. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. [16th–17th c.]
2. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

   a stage or railway post

3. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

   • 1865, David Field Rennie, M.D., Peking and the Pekingese‎^[3], volume II, London: John Murray, page 42:

     September 6th.—The English mail of the 10th of July arrived to-day, and while Mr. Hart was at the Foreign Office engaged on business with Wan-se-ang and Hang-Ki, he received his Shang-hai letters, one of which contained the news of the recapture by the Imperial forces of the cities of Woo-tu and Nan-ching, two important rebel posts.

4. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. [from 16th c.]

   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 152:

     I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
     Receiving them from such a worthless post.

   • 1599, George Abbot, Geography, or a Brief Description of the Whole World:

     in certain ſet places there be alwaies fresh Poſts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin, published 2012, page 199:

     information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.

5. (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: mail

   sent via post; parcel post

   • 1707, Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11

     I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the common post.

6. (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: mail

   • 2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:

     Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.

8. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
9. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

   Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

10. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

    • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], line 273:

      And then in post he came from Mantua.

11. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.

    • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume 1, page 136:

      there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. [from 16th c.]

   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

     Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].

2. To travel quickly; to hurry. [from 16th c.]

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], line 1:

     Post speedily to my lord your husband.

   • c. 1652, John Milton, "On His Blindness", line 13

     thousand at his bidding speed,
     And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
     They also serve who only stand and wait.

3. (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]

   Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.

4. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. [from 19th c.]
5. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. [from 20th c.]

   I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

• → Finnish: postata

post (not comparable)

1. With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     His highness comes post from Marseilles,

   • 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:

     We therefore determined to change Horses at the next Town and to travel Post the remainder of the Journey.
2. Sent via the postal service.

• German: posten

Probably from French poste.

post (plural posts)

1. An assigned station; a guard post.

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2. An appointed position in an organization, job.
   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:

     She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
2. To assign to a station; to set; to place.

   Post a sentinel in front of the door.

   • 1839 September, Thomas De Quincey, “Early Memorials of Grasmere”, in Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 116:

     [I]t might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant that had passed as master and commander, or to get him "posted"— […]

Borrowed from Latin post.

post

1. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.

   • 2008, Michael Tomasky, “Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.

   • 2008, Matthew Stevens, “Lew pressured to reveal what he knows”, in The Australian‎^[6]:

     Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

Clipping of post-production.

post (uncountable)

1. (film, informal) Post-production.

   we'll fix it in post

   • 2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image:

     Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.

• post-

Clipping of post mortem.

post (plural posts)

1. (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).

   • 2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent, page 306:

     I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.

• OTPs, SPTO, spot, TSOP, OSTP, Tops, pots, TPOs, TOPS, stop, tops, Spot, POTS, opts, PTOs

Derived from Latin postis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpost/

post m (plural postoù or pester)

1. pillar; post; pole

• peul

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔst]

Inherited from Latin postis.

post f (plural posts or postes)

1. board, plank
2. shelf

   Synonyms: lleixa, prestatge

• tauló

• post de pit
• post de planxar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin postus, from positus.

post m (plural posts or postos)

1. (military) post

post (feminine posta, masculine plural posts or postos, feminine plural postes)

1. past participle of pondre

• “post”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Italian posta.

post f (Luserna)

1. post (method of delivering mail)
2. post office

• postkart

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): [pɔːst]

From English post.

post m (plural postow)

1. (postal service) post
2. mail

From English post

post m (plural postow)

1. pillar, post
2. stake

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔst/, [ˈpʰʌsd̥]

Via French poste m from Italian posto (“post, location”), from Latin positus (“position”), from the verb pōnō (“to place”).

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. post (position, job)

• postere
• vagtpost

Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of pōnō (“to place”).

post c (singular definite posten, not used in plural form)

1. post, mail (letters or packages)
2. post, mail (a public institution distributing letters or packages)
3. postman (a person carrying letters or packages)

• postbud
• postkontor

Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of pōnō (“to place”).

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. entry (in a budget)

• postere

Via Middle Low German post from Latin postis (“post, door-post”).

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. pump, tap, faucet (an outdoor water pump)
2. (rare, in compounds) post (supporting a door or a window)

• dørpost
• vandpost
• vinduespost

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta.

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/
• Hyphenation: post
• Rhymes: -ɔst

post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. mail
2. a mail office, a post office

• Afrikaans: pos
• → Caribbean Javanese: pos
• → Indonesian: pos
  • → Petjo: pos
• → Papiamentu: pòst

Borrowed from French poste, from Italian posto.

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/
• Hyphenation: post
• Rhymes: -ɔst

post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. a location or station, where a soldier is supposed to be; position
2. a post, a position, an office

   Toekomstig Amerikaans president Barack Obama maakt zijn keuzes bekend voor de posten binnen zijn kabinet op het gebied van veiligheid en buitenlands beleid. — President elect Barack Obama makes his choices known for the posts within his cabinet in the area of security and exterior policy. (nl.wikipedia, 12/3/2008)

• Afrikaans: pos
• → Indonesian: pos
• → Saramaccan: pósu
• → Sranan Tongo: postu
  • → Caribbean Javanese: postu

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): /poːst/
• Hyphenation: post
• Rhymes: -oːst

post m (plural posts, diminutive postje n)

1. post (message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.)

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/
• Hyphenation: post
• Rhymes: -ɔst

post f (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. alternative form of pos

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/
• Hyphenation: post
• Rhymes: -ɔst

post

1. inflection of posten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• spot, stop

Borrowed from Latin post.

• IPA^(key): /post/
• Rhymes: -ost
• Syllabification: post

post

1. after
2. behind

Derived from English post.

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (message on a blog, etc.)

• pots, spot, stop, tops

post

1. inflection of posen:
   1. second/third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative
2. singular imperative of posten

Derived from English post, also Italian post and Spanish post.

• IPA^(key): /post/

post (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post

• postar

• posta (Cois Fharraige)

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): [pˠɔsˠt̪ˠ]

post m (genitive singular poist, nominative plural poist)

1. timber post, stake
2. (historical) post, letter carrier; (letter) post; postman
3. (military) post
4. post, job (of employment)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “post”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “post”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “post”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English post.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔst/, /ˈpost/, (careful style) /ˈpowst/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔst, -ost, (careful style) -owst
• Hyphenation: pòst, póst

post m (invariable)

1. (Internet) post (message in a forum)

• spot, stop

• poste (Old Latin)

From earlier poste, from Proto-Italic *posti, from Proto-Indo-European *pósti, from *pós. Related to pōne.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔst]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔst]

post (+ accusative)

1. behind (of space)

   Antonyms: ante, prae

2. after, since, (transf.) besides, except (of time)

post (not comparable)

1. (of space):
   1. behind
   2. back; backwards
2. (of time) afterwards; after

• “post”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “post”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "post", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “post”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 841

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [puôst]

post (transitive, 1st conjugation, present pošu, pos, poš, past posu)

1. tidy, clean, adorn
2. dress up, smarten

Borrowed from Italian posta.

post f

1. post (method of delivering mail)
2. post office

• postkòrt

• “post” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• IPA^(key): /poːst/

post m

1. skin

Derived from Italian posta (in the given sense).

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural poster, definite plural postene)

1. post or mail (letters, etc., sent via the postal service)

• “post” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Derived from Italian posta (in this sense).

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural postar, definite plural postane)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

• “post” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin postis (“post, pedestal”).

• IPA^(key): /post/

post m

1. post
2. pedestal

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: post, poste
  • English: post
    • → German: Post
  • Scots: post, poist

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔst/
• Rhymes: -ɔst
• Syllabification: post

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postъ.

post m inan

1. fast (the act or practice of abstaining from food)
2. fast (the period of time during which one abstains from food)

Borrowed from English post.

post m animal

1. post (message)

• post in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• post in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English post. Doublet of poste.

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet slang) post (an individual message in an on-line discussion)

   Synonyms: publicação, postagem

• postar

• “post”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “post”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Derived from Proto-Slavic *postъ.

post n (plural posturi)

1. fast (a period of abstaining from or eating very little food), fasting

• posti

• păresimi
• Postul Mare

Borrowed from French poste.

post n (plural posturi)

1. post, position, job, place, appointment, station

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔs̪t̪/

post m (genitive singular puist, plural puist)

1. post, mail
2. post, stake
3. postman, postie, mailman, letter carrier

   Synonym: posta

• cairt-phuist
• post-bàire
• post-dealain

post (past phost, future postaidh, verbal noun postadh, past participle poste)

1. post, mail

From Proto-Slavic *postъ.

• IPA^(key): /pôːst/

pȏst m inan (Cyrillic spelling по̑ст)

1. fast, fasting

• “post”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /pôst/

pȍst m inan or m anim (Cyrillic spelling по̏ст)

1. (inanimate) pole, pillar
2. (basketball, animate) center, pivot
3. (Internet, inanimate) post (on a forum, etc.)

• “post”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /pɔ́st/

pȍst m inan

1. fast (the act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food)

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	pòst
genitive	pôsta
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	pòst
genitive (rodȋlnik)	pôsta
dative (dajȃlnik)	pôstu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	pòst
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	pôstu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	pôstom

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “post”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “post”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Borrowed from English post. Doublet of puesto and poste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpost/ [ˈpost̪]
  • Rhymes: -ost
  • Syllabification: post
• IPA^(key): /ˈpoust/ [ˈpou̯st̪]
  • Rhymes: -oust

post m (plural post)

1. (computing) post

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “post”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/
• Rhymes: -ɔst

post c

1. postal office; an organization delivering mail and parcels
2. (uncountable) mail; collectively for things sent through a post office
3. item of a list or on an agenda
4. post; an assigned station
5. position to which someone may be assigned or elected

   Posten som ordförande i idrottsföreningen är vakant.

   The position as chairman in the sports association is free.

• stop

Derived from Ottoman Turkish پوست, borrowed from Persian پوست (skin).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [post]

post (definite accusative postu, plural postlar)

1. fur, hide, pelt

   Synonyms: kürk, pösteki

2. (Islam, Sufism, figuratively, by extension from the pelt used as sitting mat) The position of Sheikhdom in tariqas.
3. (figuratively) A position, an office, a chair.
4. (figuratively) One's life; hide, ass, heinie.

• “post”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /poːsd/, [pʰoːst]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pɔsd/, [pʰɔst]

Borrowed from English post.

post m (uncountable)

1. (often with definite article) post, mail

   Synonyms: llythyrgludiad, cludiad

Derived from Latin postis.

post m (plural pyst)

1. post, pillar

   Synonym: colofn

• postyn

• cynhalbost (“support, stanchion”)
• mynegbost (“signpost”)

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “post”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[7], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “post”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “post”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies