as in postmaster
a person who delivers mail
the postman comes at around nine every morning
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Recent Examples of postman
In the aftermath of his breakout performance as Bishop in the film Juice, a young Tupac Shakur was plucked by director John Singleton to star as a postman named Lucky in Poetic Justice.
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Jeff Pearlman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Boy Scouts marched, as did fraternities, high-school classes, postmen, and newspaper columnists.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
The gritty period riff follows a postman (Liu Haroan) who hides Chinese soldiers and civilians while working as a photo developer during the Japanese occupation.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Marble Falls postman Kendall Myers spent much of Monday sitting in a hotel room, refreshing the Federal Emergency Management Agency website on his phone.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 14 July 2025
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Jeff Pearlman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Boy Scouts marched, as did fraternities, high-school classes, postmen, and newspaper columnists.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
The gritty period riff follows a postman (Liu Haroan) who hides Chinese soldiers and civilians while working as a photo developer during the Japanese occupation.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Marble Falls postman Kendall Myers spent much of Monday sitting in a hotel room, refreshing the Federal Emergency Management Agency website on his phone.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for postman
Noun
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Avery was the postmaster of the Pacoima Post Office from 1961 until her retirement in 1984.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
24 Feb. 2026
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The remailing program began in 1946, when the local postmaster and a businessman came up with Loveland’s stamp-collecting oddity.—
Mindy Sink,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Later, there will be a mysterious mailman (Cameron Britton) and a slew of children in need.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 2026
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Soldiers were as ubiquitous to him as mailmen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Images of your friendly neighborhood mail carrier trundling along the roadside in a boxy white mailtruck or walking up to the door in striped federal blue are as American as apple pie, but in this 250th birthday year for the nation, not everyone gets to partake in this American experience.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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After college, the native New Yorker worked as a mail carrier, and briefly a Hollywood development man.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Postman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postman. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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