po
noun
a chamber pot.
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po
1 American
[poh]
/ poʊ /
noun
Australia and New Zealand.
pos
plural
Po
2
American
[poh]
/ poʊ /
noun
Po
3
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
p.o.
4
American
abbreviation
PO
5
American
P.O.
6
American
PO
1
British
abbreviation
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Post Office
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Personnel Officer
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petty officer
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Pilot Officer
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Also: p.o.. postal order
Po
2
British
symbol
Po
3
British
/ pəʊ /
noun
po
4
British
/ pəʊ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of po1
1875–80; probably < French pot ( de chambre ) chamber pot
Origin of p.o.4
From Latin per ōs
Example Sentences
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I personally like to lightly steam them and then deep fry them as a substitute for oysters in my po boys.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2021
With a rustic-industrial aesthetic and wide windows overlooking the harbor, it’s a favorite for locally sourced seafood dishes like soft-shell crab BLTs and fried oyster po boys.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2019
“Io parlo un po l’italiano, ma no molto bene,” you will say if you are subsequently inspired to take Italian language lessons.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, on 9 March 1930, he once said he grew up "so po" his family couldn't afford the "o" or the "r".
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2015
Roza almost burst into tears herself when she saw the sign in the window: mowimy po polsku tutaj.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Rachel is a graduate of the dual degree program between Columbia University's Graduate School and Journalism and Sciences Po.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Po waves moved through the region efficiently, while So waves weakened dramatically.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Both Po and So waves traveled significantly more slowly beneath the plateau.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The Po River's flow has collapsed in a matter of days, dropping below 300 cubic meters per second, compared with an average of around 1,500 in June, according to Aipo, the interregional river agency.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
By the end of the summer, Lau Po had taught me all he knew, and I had become a better chess player.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
At first Eliot found Mrs. Sen’s anxiety incomprehensible; his mother had a p.o. box in town, and she collected mail so infrequently that once their electricity was cut off for three days.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Many life insurance companies use PO boxes — and as I learned the hard way, you can only send mail to PO boxes via the United States Postal Service.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
The FCA's investigation, which has taken a number of years, found Monzo took on customers using using PO boxes, foreign addresses with UK postcodes or "obviously implausible UK addresses, such as well-known London landmarks".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
We don't talk about how much the revolving door of sending people back to jail is just based on who your PO was, who your lawyer was, who your judge was that day.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
PO lawmaker Marcin Kierwinski condemned Duda's decision to sign the bill.
From Reuters ● May 29, 2023
The envelope was addressed to his PO box.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
If you can afford to, you can rent a P.O. box at your local post office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
But P.&I.D.’s legal address was a P.O. box on Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Some marketplaces have the option to mail the product to the buyer and if you choose to do so, experts suggest you use a P.O. box and never share your personal address.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
Or anyone could, like Oswald, scribble a name and information on a mail-order coupon and have it delivered to a P.O. box a few weeks later.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2023
Even before it could have been delivered to the P.O.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Haldeman, who had listened to the March 21 tape, had testified to this pos sible confusion of dates by Dean.
From Time Magazine Archive
That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session.
From Time Magazine Archive
Discussing the hope of her still unending torrent of fan mail that the baby be a boy, Mrs. Gable pondered pos sible names, rejected "Clark Jr."
From Time Magazine Archive
James Booth's Joyce lacks some of the incisive arrogance that the character ought to pos sess, while Tim Curry's Tzara is larkily iconoclastic without quite being a cultural arson ist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though greater yet his boasted merit was, He shall not have my daughter, that is pos'.
From The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 by Saintsbury, George
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