mailman

[ meyl-man ]

noun

, plural mail·men.

1. a person employed by the post office to deliver mail; mail carrier.

mailman

/ ˈmeɪlˌmæn /

noun

1. See postman
   another name for postman

Word History and Origins

Origin of mailman¹

First recorded in 1860–65; mail ¹ + man

Example Sentences

Rainbow Railroad and Taylor Hirschberg, a researcher at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health who is also a Hearst Foundation scholar, and others have been working to help evacuate LGBTQ Afghans from the country.

From Washington Blade

Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist and professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health who has extensively studied the impacts of rising carbon dioxide on crops, describes the recent review as a “good primer” on the issue.

From Eater

Some of the 50 Afghan human rights activists who Taylor Hirschberg, a researcher at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health who is also a Hearst Foundation scholar, has been able to help leave the country are LGBTQ.

From Washington Blade

Going back to the mailman analogy, a single protein can have multiple “mail routes,” depending on the status of a cell.

From Singularity Hub 

If a cell is a neighborhood, these proteins are mailmen, shuttling messages back and forth.

From Singularity Hub 

My mailman, David, is the sunny-faced sort who brightens my block each afternoon, no matter the weather, with a glowing smile.

From The Daily Beast

“He was my personal mailman,” says Mychal McNicholas of Rockaway.

From The Daily Beast

He was a letter carrier unlike any other, or perhaps exactly like the iconic mailman of another era.

From The Daily Beast

The red mailman may be in the spring of his political life, but he already knows how to deliver the message of discontent.

From The Daily Beast

About 1910, however, a mailman was provided by the post office, though he still worked under the charge of the Chief Librarian.

From Project Gutenberg

I am very glad I wish Edward was here, but the mailman may bring me a letter from him this morning.

From Project Gutenberg

I knew that in all probability we should have no visitors for ten or eleven days until the mailman came.

From Project Gutenberg

“Here the mailman comes at last,” she sighed in relief, as she saw the man turn in at the house next door.

From Project Gutenberg

"'Tis Her Majesty's mail, b'y," Billy could hear the mailman say.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• letter carrier
• postman