postage stamp

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A stamp

[edit] Noun

Singular
postage stamp

Plural
postage stamps

postage stamp (plural postage stamps)

  1. A small piece of printed paper stuck on an item to be mailed, indicating that postage has been paid.
    The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.
  2. (figuratively, colloquial) A very small area.
    We have just a postage stamp of a back garden.

[edit] Translations

piece of paper indicating postage has been paid
small area

[edit] See also

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