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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A woman who carries and delivers mail.

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  • noun rare A female letter carrier, a woman who delivers mail.

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Examples

  • Saturday the rural route postwoman beeped the horn at the end of our driveway to alert me to a delivery, didn't wait long enough for me to get out there, and then drove off with the medication I needed to inject my horse.

    Mental Space: The Final Frontier 2007

  • Activism should be permitted to be more than solely being a postman/postwoman, or producer of literature.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Stephen Tall 2007

  • 'A 'PAINFULLY' shy postwoman dressed up as a burlesque artist to raise money for needy children....

    Archive 2007-11-01 Burlesque Daily 2007

  • 'A 'PAINFULLY' shy postwoman dressed up as a burlesque artist to raise money for needy children....

    News Post: Miss Exotic World 2007 Goes Postal! Burlesque Daily 2007

  • Losh, but the old wife was angry when the postwoman, Maggie McTaggart, handed in your envelope!

    My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

  • Briggs told his daughter and his daughter mentioned it to the postwoman and she told me, 'said Mrs Bantry.

    A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962

  • I had intended to become a land girl, a postwoman, and a bus conductress by way of rounding off my career -- but the Armistice intervened!

    Secret Adversary Agatha Christie 1933

  • I had intended to become a land girl, a postwoman, and a bus conductress by way of rounding off my career -- but the Armistice intervened!

    The Secret Adversary CHRISTIE, Agatha, Dame 1922

  • "You are the postwoman, I suppose," said I, as I took the letter.

    The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

  • "You are the postwoman, I suppose," said I, as I took the letter.

    The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

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