po
noun
a chamber pot.
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po
1 American
[poh]
/ poʊ /
noun
Australia and New Zealand.
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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
"Ma po tofu has to be a favourite," says David Yeung, a smile evident in his voice.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2020
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
Your welcome gift bag includes the herbal ointment Tiger Balm and Chinese po chai pills for indigestion.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2019
People don’t know we just as po’ as po’.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Li visited Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year earlier this year, months after a massive apartment blaze in the north-eastern Tai Po district claimed 168 lives.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Italy's longest river, the Po, hit a historic low near the northern city of Cremona in late July.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
Luring visitors inside with refreshment was a little trick Clare had learned from Brickbane, who’d learned it from Po, who’d learned it from Eddifoot, who’d learned it from the Usher before him, and so on.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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
PiS, led by 75-year-old Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and Tusk's PO are the two parties that have dominated Polish politics for the last 20 years and some voters are fed up with the duopoly.
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
The PO says it does not have an open-door migrant policy and says none of the questions represent their policies.
From Reuters ● Aug. 14, 2023
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
The envelope was addressed to his PO box.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
If living on the streets, homeless voters can use a P.O.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
People who lack permanent addresses can receive voting materials at shelters, P.O. boxes and businesses, though they cannot register to vote with addresses for P.O. boxes or businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
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
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
He was so enthusiastic about the old days at the P.O.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
Haldeman, who had listened to the March 21 tape, had testified to this pos sible confusion of dates by Dean.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two cardiologists, the Navy's Captain Ashton Graybiel and the Air Force's Dr. Lawrence E. Lamb, foresee pos sibly grave difficulties for both the circulatory and respiratory systems under long exposure to g-free conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two groups of self-appointed trustees fought over pos session of the old shrine, took their squabble into court.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this enterprise heaven's cooperation is assured, providing we make its cooperation pos sible.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'll go by dem lak dey's hitched to a pos'!"
From The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey
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