Meanings
mailman1
nounmailman (plural mailmen)
plural mailmen
- CanadaUSSomeone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
"What I'm thinking," she said, "is that I'll become a mailman. They're hiring women mailmen now, you know. […]"
1974, Ella Leffland, Love Out of Season, page 364Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailperson, postal carrier, postie, postman, postperson
Mailman2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic سَاعِيّ بَرِيد
- سَاعِيّ بَرِيد (sāʕiyy barīd)post office employee
Basque postari
- postaripost office employee
Bengali পিয়ন
- পিয়ন (piẏon)post office employee
Bulgarian пощальо́н, по́щаджия
- пощальо́н (poštaljón)post office employee
- по́щаджия (póštadžija)post office employee
Catalan carter
- carterpost office employee
Chinese Cantonese 郵差 /邮差, 信差
- 郵差 /邮差 (jau⁴ caai¹)post office employee
- 信差 (seon³ caai¹)post office employee
Chinese Mandarin 郵遞員 /邮递员, 郵差 /邮差
- 郵遞員 /邮递员 (yóudìyuán)post office employee
- 郵差 /邮差 (yóuchāi)post office employee
Czech pošťák, listonoš
- pošťákpost office employee
- listonošpost office employee
Danish postbud
- postbudpost office employee
Dutch postbode, brievenbesteller
- postbodepost office employee
- brievenbestellerpost office employee
- postbestellerpost office employee
Esperanto poŝtisto, leterportisto
- poŝtistopost office employee
- leterportistopost office employee
Estonian kirjakandja, postimees
- kirjakandjapost office employee
- postimeespost office employee
Finnish postinjakaja, postinkantaja
- postinjakajapost office employee
- postinkantajapost office employee
- postimiespost office employee
French facteur, factrice
- facteurpost office employee
- factricepost office employee
German Briefträger, Postbote
- Briefträgerpost office employee
- Postbotepost office employee
- Postzustellerpost office employee
Greek ταχυδρόμος
- ταχυδρόμος (tachydrómos)post office employee
Hebrew דוור, דַּוָּר
- דוורpost office employee
- דַּוָּר (davár)post office employee
Hindi डाकिया, डाकवाला
- डाकिया (ḍākiyā)post office employee
- डाकवाला (ḍākvālā)post office employee
- पत्रवाहक (patravāhak)post office employee
Hungarian postás
- postáspost office employee
Icelandic bréfberi, póstmaður
- bréfberipost office employee
- póstmaðurpost office employee
Italian postino, portalettere
- postinopost office employee
- portaletterepost office employee
Japanese 郵便集配人, 郵便配達人
- 郵便集配人 (yūbin shūhainin)post office employee
- 郵便配達人 (yūbin haitatsunin)post office employee
- 郵便配達員 (yūbin haitatsuin)post office employee
Korean 우편집배원
- 우편집배원 (upyeonjipbaewon)post office employee
Latin tabellārius
- tabellāriuspost office employee
Latvian pastnieks
- pastniekspost office employee
Lithuanian pãštininkas, láiškininkas
- pãštininkaspost office employee
- láiškininkaspost office employee
- laiškanešỹspost office employee
Malay besteler, opas pos
- bestelerpost office employee
- opas pospost office employee
- penghantar pospost office employee
- posmenpost office employee
- tukang pospost office employee
- بستيلرpost office employee
- اوڤس ڤوسpost office employee
- ڤڠهانتر ڤوسpost office employee
- ڤوسمينpost office employee
- توکڠ ڤوسpost office employee
Māori kaiamo mēra
- kaiamo mērapost office employee
Norwegian Bokmål postmann
- postmannpost office employee
Polish listonosz, listonoszka
- listonoszpost office employee
- listonoszkapost office employee
- listowypost office employee
Portuguese carteiro
- carteiropost office employee
Romanian poștaș, poștar
- poștașpost office employee
- poștarpost office employee
- factorpost office employee
- factor poștalpost office employee
Russian почтальо́н, почтальо́нша
- почтальо́н (počtalʹón)post office employee
- почтальо́нша (počtalʹónša)post office employee
- письмоно́сец (pisʹmonósec)post office employee
Scottish Gaelic posta
- postapost office employee
Slovak poštár
- poštárpost office employee
Spanish cartero, trotero (disused)
- carteropost office employee
- trotero (disused)post office employee
- repartidor postalpost office employee
- valijapost office employee
- estafeteropost office employee
- valijeropost office employee
Swedish brevbärare
- brevbärarepost office employee
Tagalog tagahatid-sulat, kartero
- tagahatid-sulatpost office employee
- karteropost office employee
Tamil அஞ்சல் காரர்
- அஞ்சல் காரர் (añcal kārar)post office employee
Thai บุรุษไปรษณีย์
- บุรุษไปรษณีย์ (bù-rùt-bprai-sà-nii)post office employee
Turkish postacı
- postacıpost office employee
Ukrainian листоно́ша, пошта́р
- листоно́ша (lystonóša)post office employee
- пошта́р (poštár)post office employee
- поштальйо́н (poštalʹjón)post office employee
Urdu ڈاکِیَہ, ڈاکِیَا
- ڈاکِیَہ (ḍākiya)post office employee
- ڈاکِیَا (ḍākiyā)post office employee
- ڈاک والا (ḍāk vālā)post office employee
Vietnamese người đưa thư, bưu tá
- người đưa thưpost office employee
- bưu tápost office employee
Welsh postmon
- postmonpost office employee
Yiddish בריווטרעגער
- בריווטרעגער (brivtreger)post office employee
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Cite this entry
APA
mailman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mailman
MLA
“mailman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mailman. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mailman,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mailman.
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