post office

See also: postoffice

English

Noun

post office (plural post offices)

1. A place (building, office, shop, or counter) concerned with the business of delivering letters, post or mail and selling stamps, etc.
2. An organisation that delivers letters (for example, Canada Post, Royal Mail, United States Postal Service).
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 16:

     “The post-officeis a wonderful establishment!” said she.—“The regularity and despatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!”

3. (Canada, US) A children's game.

Synonyms

• (place): postal outlet
• (place): postal station (Canadian)

Derived terms

• post-office order
• travelling post office

Translations

place

• Afrikaans: poskantoor
• Albanian: postë (sq) f
• Amharic: ፖስታ ቤት (posta bet), ፖስታ (posta)
• Arabic: مَكْتَب اَلْبَرِيد m (maktab al-barīd), بَرِيد m (barīd)
• Armenian: փոստ (hy) (pʻost), փոստի բաժանմունք (pʻosti bažanmunkʻ), (Western Armenian) նամակատուն (hy) (namakatun)
• Azerbaijani: poçt (az)
• Belarusian: пашто́вае аддзяле́нне n (paštóvaje addzjaljénnje), по́шта f (póšta)
• Bengali: ডাক বিভাগ (ḍak bibhag)
• Bulgarian: по́ща (bg) f (póšta)
• Burmese: စာတိုက် (my) (catuik)
• Catalan: oficina de correus f, oficina postal f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 郵局／邮局 (jau⁴ guk^6-2), 邮局 (jau⁴ guk^6-2)

  Dungan: юҗү (i͡užü)

  Mandarin: 郵局／邮局 (zh) (yóujú), 邮局 (zh) (yóujú), 郵便局／邮便局 (zh) (yóubiànjú), 邮便局 (zh) (yóubiànjú) (Taiwan)

  Min Nan: 郵便局／邮便局 (zh-min-nan), 邮便局 (û-piān-kio̍k)

• Cornish: lytherva f, sodhva an post f
• Czech: pošta (cs) f
• Danish: posthus n, postkontor (da)
• Dutch: postkantoor (nl) n, posterij (nl) f
• Esperanto: poŝtejo, poŝtoficejo
• Estonian: postkontor
• Faroese: posthús n
• Finnish: posti (fi), postitoimisto (fi)
• French: bureau de poste (fr) m
• Georgian: ფოსტა (posṭa)
• German: Postamt (de) n
• Greek: ταχυδρομείο (el) n (tachydromeío)
• Hausa: fasa'ofis
• Hebrew: דֹּאַר (he) m (do-ahr)
• Hindi: डाकघर (hi) m (ḍākghar), पोस्ट-ऑफ़िस m (posṭ-ŏfis)
• Hungarian: posta (hu)
• Icelandic: pósthús (is) n
• Ido: posto-kontoro (io)
• Indonesian: kantor pos (id)
• Irish: oifig an phoist f, oifig poist f
• Italian: ufficio postale (it) m, posta (it) f
• Japanese: 郵便局 (ゆうびんきょく, yūbinkyoku)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: пошта (kk) (poşta)
• Khmer: ប្រៃសណីយ៍ (km) (praysaʼnii), ប៉ុស្តិ៍ (km) (poh), ប្រអប់ប្រៃសណីយ៍ (prɑʼɑp praysaʼnii)
• Korean: 우체국 (ko) (ucheguk) (郵遞局 (ko)), 우펀국 (upeon'guk) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

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• Kyrgyz: почта (ky) (pocta)
• Lao: ໄປ​ສະ​ນີ (pai sa nī), ຫ້ອງການໄປສະນີ (lo) (hǭng kān pai sa nī)
• Latin: diribitorium n
• Latvian: pasta nodaļa
• Lithuanian: pašto skyrius m, paštas (lt)
• Macedonian: пошта f (pošta)
• Malay: kantor pos, pejabat pos
• Malayalam: പോസ്റ്റ് ഓഫീസ് (pōsṟṟŭ ōphīsŭ), താപാലാപ്പീസ് (tāpālāppīsŭ)
• Mongolian: шууангийн салбар (šuuangiin salbar)
• Navajo: naaltsoos ndahageehígi, naaltsoos báhooghan, naaltsoos nehegeehégi
• Norwegian: postkontor n, posthus n
• Pashto: پوسته خانه (ps) f (posta xāná)
• Persian: اداره پست (edâre-ye post), پستخانه (fa) (post-xâne)
• Polish: poczta (pl) f
• Portuguese: estação de correios f, correio (pt) m
• Romanian: oficiu poștal n
• Russian: почто́вое отделе́ние n (počtóvoje otdelénije), по́чта (ru) f (póčta), почта́мт (ru) m (počtámt), (main post office) главпочта́мт (ru) m (glavpočtámt)
• Scottish Gaelic: oifis a'phuist
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пошта f

  Roman: pošta (sh) f

• Sinhalese: තැපැල් කන්තෝරුව (tæpæl kantōruwa)
• Slovak: pošta f
• Slovene: pošta (sl) f
• Spanish: correos (es) m pl, casa de correos f, oficina de correos f
• Swahili: posta (sw)
• Swedish: postkontor (sv) n
• Tagalog: koreo
• Tajik: почта (tg) (počta), почтахона (počtaxona)
• Tamil: அஞ்சலகம் (ta) (añcalakam)
• Telugu: పోస్టాఫీసు (pōsṭāphīsu)
• Thai: ที่ทำการไปรษณีย์ (tîi-tam-gaan-bprai-sà-nii), ไปรษณีย์ (th) (bprai-sà-nii)
• Tibetan: སྦྲག་ཁང (sbrag khang)
• Turkish: postane (tr)
• Turkmen: poçta
• Ukrainian: пошто́ве відді́лення n (poštóve viddílennja), по́шта (uk) f (póšta)
• Urdu: ڈاک خانہ m (ḍāk khānah), پوسٹ آفس m (posṭ ofis)
• Uyghur: پوچتا (pochta)
• Uzbek: pochtaxona (uz), pochtamt (uz), pochta (uz)
• Vietnamese: sở bưu điện (所郵電), phòng bưu điện (房郵電), bưu cục (vi), bưu điện (vi)
• Volapük: potöp (vo)
• Welsh: swyddfa bost (cy) f
• Yami: ibingkiok

organization

• Arabic: بَرِيد m (barīd)
• Armenian: փոստ (hy) (pʻost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郵局／邮局 (zh) (yóujú), 邮局 (zh) (yóujú)

• Danish: postvæsen n
• Estonian: post (et)
• Finnish: posti (fi)
• French: poste (fr) f
• Georgian: ფოსტა (posṭa)
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• German: Post (de) f
• Greek: ταχυδρομείο (el) n (tachydromeío)
• Japanese: 郵便局 (ゆうびんきょく, yūbinkyoku)
• Korean: 우체국 (ko) (ucheguk) (郵遞局 (ko))
• Norman: poste f
• Portuguese: correios (pt) m pl
• Romanian: poștă (ro) f
• Russian: по́чта (ru) f (póčta)
• Thai: ไปรษณีย์ (th) (bprai-sà-nii)