Meanings
plural postmarks
- 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.
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."
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
present singular third person postmarks · participle present postmarking · participle past postmarked · past postmarked
- transitiveTo apply a postmark on.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic خَتْم بَرِيدِيّ
- خَتْم بَرِيدِيّ (ḵatm barīdiyy)marking made by a postal service on a letter
Bulgarian по́щенски печа́т
- по́щенски печа́т (póštenski pečát)marking made by a postal service on a letter
Chinese Mandarin 郵戳 /邮戳
- 郵戳 /邮戳 (yóuchuō)marking made by a postal service on a letter
Danish poststempel, afstemple
- poststempelmarking made by a postal service on a letter
- afstempleto apply a postmark on
Esperanto poŝtmarko
- poŝtmarkomarking made by a postal service on a letter
Estonian postitempel
- postitempelmarking made by a postal service on a letter
Finnish postileima, leimata
- postileimamarking made by a postal service on a letter
- leimatato apply a postmark on
French cachet de la poste
- cachet de la postemarking made by a postal service on a letter
German Poststempel, stempeln
- Poststempelmarking made by a postal service on a letter
- stempelnto apply a postmark on
Hungarian postai bélyegző
- postai bélyegzőmarking made by a postal service on a letter
Indonesian cap pos
- cap posmarking made by a postal service on a letter
Italian bollo postale, annullo postale
- bollo postalemarking made by a postal service on a letter
- annullo postalemarking made by a postal service on a letter
- timbro postalemarking made by a postal service on a letter
Japanese 消印, 郵便印
- 消印 (keshiin)marking made by a postal service on a letter
- 郵便印 (yūbin'in)marking made by a postal service on a letter
- スタンプ (sutanpu)marking made by a postal service on a letter
Korean 소인, 포스트마크
- 소인 (soin)marking made by a postal service on a letter
- 포스트마크 (poseuteumakeu)marking made by a postal service on a letter
Latvian pasta zīmogs, zīmogot
- pasta zīmogsmarking made by a postal service on a letter
- zīmogotto apply a postmark on
Portuguese carimbo
- carimbomarking made by a postal service on a letter
Russian почто́вый ште́мпель, штемпелева́ть
- почто́вый ште́мпель (počtóvyj štɛ́mpelʹ)marking made by a postal service on a letter
- штемпелева́ть (štempelevátʹ)to apply a postmark on
Spanish matasellos, timbre
- matasellosmarking made by a postal service on a letter
- timbremarking made by a postal service on a letter
- matasellarto apply a postmark on
- matarto apply a postmark on
Swedish poststämpel
- poststämpelmarking made by a postal service on a letter
Thai ตราประทับ
- ตราประทับ (dtraa-bprà-táp)marking made by a postal service on a letter
Ukrainian пошто́вий ште́мпель
- пошто́вий ште́мпель (poštóvyj štémpelʹ)marking made by a postal service on a letter
Cite this entry
postmark. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmark
“postmark.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmark. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postmark,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmark.
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