post-housen.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊsthaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊstˌ(h)aʊs/

Forms: see post n.³ and house n.¹ and int.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: post n.³, house n.¹

Etymology: < post n.³ + house n.¹

1. A posting-house or inn where horses are kept for the use of travellers; (hence in extended use) an inn or other establishment providing accommodation for travellers. Now archaic or historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.

schooleOE

hospitalc1300

khanc1400

xenodochy?c1550

posting inn1556

vent1577

caravanserai1585

yam1587

serai1609

venta1610

post-house1611

xenodochium1612

imaret1613

seraglio1617

rancho1648

hospitium1650

watering-house1664

choultry1698

accommodation house1787

stage-house1788

spital1794

stand1805

resthouse1807

hospice1818

resting1879

stopping house1883

truck stop1961

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. L3^v I rod from Cremona.., and came to a solitary post-house twenty miles off... The first wheat that I saw cut this yeare was at that postehouse.

a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 318 We reposd this night at Piperno in the Post-house without the Towne.

1712 London Gaz. No. 5027/5 He alighted at the Post-house to change Horses.

1765 T. Smollett Trav. (1766) II. xli. 255 If I am ill-used at the post-house in England, I can be accommodated elsewhere.

1788 J. Ledyard Jrnl. 10 Apr. in Journey Through Russia (1966) 223 I have a most horrid post house this Evening,..filled with Smoak, Dirt & noise.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I ciii. 54 They are a sort of post-house, where the Fates Change horses.

1861 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 31 40 Ahooan, a caravanserai and post-house, situated in a small plain: a reservoir of rain-water; good bread, but nothing else obtainable.

1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 1 426 We marched 8 miles west down the Wadi Beza to the post-house of Feisoli, a somewhat Roman-sounding name.

1923 H. E. Williams Spinning Wheels & Homespun 23 When Kingston was still a fur trading post..a line of post-houses extended from Quebec to Montreal.

1946 National Geographic Mag. July 143 (advt.) Greyhound is planning new and finer highway coaches, more modern terminals and posthouses.

1979 R. Magowan Tour de France v. 73 We've bolted down the most succulent of tripe stews at the Carrefour post-house.

1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) ix. 490 In some places, if you could get the official permission that was required, you stayed at a ‘dak bungalow’, a post house.

2. A post office. In later use chiefly historical or English regional (northern). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > post office

letter office1635

post-house1635

post office1659

post hut1753

post-shed1753

P.O.1824

station1845

post1848

1635 Proclamation in R. Sanders Rymer's Fœdera (1732) XIX. 649/2 Which Letters to be left at the Post-house or some other House, as the said Thomas Witherings shall think convenient.

1670 A. Marvell Let. 14 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 316 I wrote to you two Letters, and payed for them from the Posthouse here.

1704 Duke of Marlborough Let. 7 May in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) I. 289 I shall write noe more fearing this letter may not come safe, for I shall put it tomorrow into the posthouse att Nimegue.

1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 205 When I go into the country, a general direction to the post-house may suffice.

1800 J. Moore Mordaunt I. i. 1 I found your letter, as I expected, at the post-house at Bern, from whence I proceeded directly to Lausanne.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 133 Posthouse, the post-office.

1871 S. S. Jones Northumberland 212 He'd keepit his place at the post-hoose for mony a year.

1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 259 Colonel Dongan, governor of New York, threw out the proposition to establish a line of post-houses along the coast from the Acadian boundary to Carolina.

1933 Sci. Monthly Dec. 501/2 Between these posthouses, smaller stations were built every three miles and the runner carried the despatches only that distance and turned them over to the next man.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	post-house
释义	post-housen. Brit. /ˈpəʊsthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈpoʊstˌ(h)aʊs/ Forms: see post n.³ and house n.¹ and int. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: post n.³, house n.¹ Etymology: < post n.³ + house n.¹ 1. A posting-house or inn where horses are kept for the use of travellers; (hence in extended use) an inn or other establishment providing accommodation for travellers. Now archaic or historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. schooleOE hospitalc1300 khanc1400 xenodochy?c1550 posting inn1556 vent1577 caravanserai1585 yam1587 serai1609 venta1610 post-house1611 xenodochium1612 imaret1613 seraglio1617 rancho1648 hospitium1650 watering-house1664 choultry1698 accommodation house1787 stage-house1788 spital1794 stand1805 resthouse1807 hospice1818 resting1879 stopping house1883 truck stop1961 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. L3^v I rod from Cremona.., and came to a solitary post-house twenty miles off... The first wheat that I saw cut this yeare was at that postehouse. a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 318 We reposd this night at Piperno in the Post-house without the Towne. 1712 London Gaz. No. 5027/5 He alighted at the Post-house to change Horses. 1765 T. Smollett Trav. (1766) II. xli. 255 If I am ill-used at the post-house in England, I can be accommodated elsewhere. 1788 J. Ledyard Jrnl. 10 Apr. in Journey Through Russia (1966) 223 I have a most horrid post house this Evening,..filled with Smoak, Dirt & noise. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I ciii. 54 They are a sort of post-house, where the Fates Change horses. 1861 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 31 40 Ahooan, a caravanserai and post-house, situated in a small plain: a reservoir of rain-water; good bread, but nothing else obtainable. 1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 1 426 We marched 8 miles west down the Wadi Beza to the post-house of Feisoli, a somewhat Roman-sounding name. 1923 H. E. Williams Spinning Wheels & Homespun 23 When Kingston was still a fur trading post..a line of post-houses extended from Quebec to Montreal. 1946 National Geographic Mag. July 143 (advt.) Greyhound is planning new and finer highway coaches, more modern terminals and posthouses. 1979 R. Magowan Tour de France v. 73 We've bolted down the most succulent of tripe stews at the Carrefour post-house. 1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) ix. 490 In some places, if you could get the official permission that was required, you stayed at a ‘dak bungalow’, a post house. 2. A post office. In later use chiefly historical or English regional (northern). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > post office letter office1635 post-house1635 post office1659 post hut1753 post-shed1753 P.O.1824 station1845 post1848 1635 Proclamation in R. Sanders Rymer's Fœdera (1732) XIX. 649/2 Which Letters to be left at the Post-house or some other House, as the said Thomas Witherings shall think convenient. 1670 A. Marvell Let. 14 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 316 I wrote to you two Letters, and payed for them from the Posthouse here. 1704 Duke of Marlborough Let. 7 May in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) I. 289 I shall write noe more fearing this letter may not come safe, for I shall put it tomorrow into the posthouse att Nimegue. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 205 When I go into the country, a general direction to the post-house may suffice. 1800 J. Moore Mordaunt I. i. 1 I found your letter, as I expected, at the post-house at Bern, from whence I proceeded directly to Lausanne. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 133 Posthouse, the post-office. 1871 S. S. Jones Northumberland 212 He'd keepit his place at the post-hoose for mony a year. 1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 259 Colonel Dongan, governor of New York, threw out the proposition to establish a line of post-houses along the coast from the Acadian boundary to Carolina. 1933 Sci. Monthly Dec. 501/2 Between these posthouses, smaller stations were built every three miles and the runner carried the despatches only that distance and turned them over to the next man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611
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