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Definition: Postilion |
PostilionNoun1. Someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "postilion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
Etymology: Postilion \Pos*til"ion\, noun. [French expression postillon, Italian postiglione, from posta post. See Post postman.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Postilion" is a common misspelling or typo for: position. |
Synonym: PostilionSynonym: postillion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Director | Driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster; whipper in. |
Traveler | Driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier, vetturino, condottiere; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Postilion |
| Specialty definitions using "postilion": POSTILION OF THE GOSPEL. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Postilion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Postilion" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "postilion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | karrocier (cabman, Carter, coachman, panel beater, postboy, teamster, Waggoner, Wagoner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пощальон (letter carrier, post, postboy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμαξηλάτησ ιππεύων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | postakocsis (postillion), ostorhegyesen ülő hajtó (postillion), nyergesen ülő hajtó (postillion), lovon ülő postakocsis (postillion), hírnök (ambassador, forerunner, guard, herald, Mercury, messenger, missive, postillion, pursuivant), gyorsküldönc (poster, postillion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 御者 (cabman, coachman, driver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎょしゃ (cabman, coachman, driver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | markagh couch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostilionpay postilhão (postboy). (various references) форейтор (postboy, postillion). (various references) poštarski momak. (various references) postillón (postboy, postillion). (various references) postiljon (post boy, postboy). (various references) postilyon (postillion), posta arabası sürücüsü (postillion). (various references) форейтор (postillion). (various references) người dẫn đầu trạm (postillion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "postilion": postilions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "postilion" (pronounced 'Pos*til"ion'): Adfluxion, Affixion, Affluxion, Annexion, Antecommunion, Anteflexion, Anthelion, Aphelion, Brunion, Circumflexion, Commixion, Communion, Complexion, Connexion, Crucifixion, Deflexion, Defluxion, flexion, fluxion, Franion, inflexion, intercommunion, Mandilion, Menaion, Misfashion, Misopinion, Noncommunion, Nonunion, Onion, Parhelion, Pommelion, Prefixion, Preopinion, Pumpion, refashion, retroflexion, reunion, Self-communion, Self-opinion, Selion, Suffixion, tatterdemalion, Union, Unpinion, Virmilion, Wanion. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-l-n-o-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: inositol, pinitols, position. | |
-2 letters: lotions, options, pinitol, plosion, poloist, pontils, potions, soliton, topsoil. | |
-3 letters: instil, lipins, lotion, option, pilots, pinots, pintos, pistil, pistol, piston, pitons, points, poison, polios, pontil, postin, potion, solion, spinto, splint, spoilt, stolon, tonsil. | |
-4 letters: intis, linos, lints, lions, lipin, loins, loons, loops, loots, lotos, noils, nolos, olios, opsin, pilis, pilot. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-l-n-o-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: positional, postilions, postillion, spoliation, topsoiling. | |
+2 letters: liposuction, lipotropins, malposition, postillions, spoliations. | |
+3 letters: appositional, compilations, depositional, despoliation, expositional, lipoproteins, liposuctions, malpositions, monopolistic, oppositional, pollinations, positionally. | |
+4 letters: complications, compositional, despoliations, dispositional, entomophilies, exploitations, optionalities, ovipositional, podsolization, polarizations, polycistronic, postisolation, prepositional, propositional, sexploitation, suppositional. | |
+5 letters: antimonopolist, antipollutions, conspirational, conspiratorial, dinitrophenols, geopoliticians, interpolations, micropulsation, nonpoliticians, oligopsonistic, operationalism, operationalist, podsolizations, podzolizations, polymerisation, polytonalities, postganglionic, postliberation, postpositional, proliferations, recompilations, sexploitations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 73 74 69 6C 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- ... - .. .-.. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s t i l i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0074 0069 006C 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508185867578758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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