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Definition: Post Road |
Post RoadNoun1. A road over which mail is carried. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Post Road |
| English words defined with "post road": bitt, bollard ♦ milepost, milestone ♦ Postrider ♦ To travel by dak. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "post road": Knights of the Road ♦ PARSON. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Old post road, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Two Yemschiks immediately after a drive of thirty versts on the Siberian post road in 40 degree below zero temp. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | On a post road from Baltimore to Philadelphia. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
christian church post road | 3 |
mountain post road trading | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "post road"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 駅路 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | えきろ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ostpay oadray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Post Road" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: postroad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-o-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: parodos. | |
-2 letters: adopts, droops, pastor, troops. | |
-3 letters: adopt, apods, aport, darts, datos, doats, doors, dopas, dorps, dorsa, drats, droop, drops, dropt, odors, ordos, pards, parts, poods, ports, praos, prats, proas, prods, proso, prost, ratos, roads, roast, roods, roost, roots, rotas, rotos, sapor, sarod, sopor, spado, spoor, sport, sprat, stood, stoop, strap, strop, tardo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-o-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gastropod, parotoids, trapdoors. | |
+2 letters: adsorption, arthropods, doorplates, gastropods. | |
+3 letters: adsorptions, anthropoids, parenthoods, pteranodons, radiophotos. | |
+4 letters: bootstrapped, deportations, orthopaedics, petrodollars, postdoctoral, proctodaeums, radioisotope, spermatozoid. | |
+5 letters: apostrophised, apostrophized, cotransported, gonadotropins, metamorphosed, moderatorship, postdoctorate, postsecondary, radioisotopes, radioisotopic, spermatozoids. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 73 74      52 6F 61 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01010010 01101111 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s t   R o a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0074      0052 006F 0061 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818586252816770 |
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