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
"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
“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
“Since we cuttin off the orphan chariddy and we not extendin it to the porter help, maybe we oughta give a little to a po, strugglin gal gotta hustle on commission. Hey!”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
To examine the plate beneath the OJP, the researchers studied high frequency seismic signals called Po and So waves.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Po and So waves travel through oceanic plates rather than moving only through the surrounding mantle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Farmers in the Po delta accuse all their rivals up the Po valley of leaving them with too little.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Seated across from me was an American man, about the same age as Lau Po, maybe fifty.
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
He has issued an appeal to help find family members and relatives of PO Smith.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
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 leader Donald Tusk hit back at the PiS allegations on Friday, labelling the government a “promoter of worm soup”.
From Reuters ● Mar. 3, 2023
Breaking his own privacy rules, Bobby even included a PO box number that he could be written to in care of so that the reader could order “additional copies.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
When Paxton, the state attorney general, filed the lawsuit in February suing Dallas, a P.O.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
For those unable to use a P.O. box, finding a trusted friend or family member where you can have your replacement documentation delivered to is recommended.
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
He was so enthusiastic about the old days at the P.O.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
In this enterprise heaven's cooperation is assured, providing we make its cooperation pos sible.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a surge had seemed pos sible just a month ago on the strength of news that February home starts were at a 2.2 million annual pace, the briskest in eleven years.
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
"Thus far, the Administration has done everything pos sible to ignore them."
From Time Magazine Archive
Discharge between balls B and D. Discharge between balls A and C. Small ball B inductric pos.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
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