postmark

English

Etymology

A postmark from 1890.

Compound of post +‎ mark.

Pronunciation

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Noun

postmark (plural postmarks)

1. A marking made by a postal service on a delivery, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, mostly serving to cancel a postage stamp.
   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

     He looked at the mauve envelope doubtfully, and examined the postmark. "Where is Pudlington, James? and one might almost ask—why is Pudlington? No town has any right to such an offensive name."

Translations

marking made by a postal service on a letter

• Bulgarian: пощенски печат m (poštenski pečat)
• Danish: poststempel
• Esperanto: poŝtmarko (eo)
• Finnish: postileima (fi)
• French: cachet de la poste m
• German: Poststempel (de) m
• Italian: bollo postale m, annullo postale m, timbro postale m
• Latvian: pasta zīmogs
• Persian: مهر پست
• Portuguese: carimbo (pt) m
• Russian: почто́вый ште́мпель m (počtóvyj štémpelʹ)
• Spanish: matasellos (es) m, timbre (es) m

Verb

postmark (third-person singular simple present postmarks, present participle postmarking, simple past and past participle postmarked)

1. To apply a postmark on.

Translations

to apply a postmark on

• Danish: afstemple
• Finnish: leimata (fi)
• German: stempeln (de)
• Latvian: zīmogot
• Russian: штемпелева́ть (ru) (štempelevátʹ)
• Spanish: matasellar (es), matar (es)