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 will never know,” writes Warner, “how many po to effect.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022
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
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
The Po River has never fallen this low so early in the year, raising fears of a devastating drought in July in this corner of northern Italy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
“It was me just getting caught up in this vortex,” said Po, 29, whose flexible schedule as a writer allowed him to devote a weekday afternoon to the quest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Last Thursday at noon in New York City, Enrico Po was poised on his laptop when tickets became available.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Lau's cubicle is one of nine in a single unit, separated by thin wooden dividers, in a 60-year-old building in one of Hong Kong's poorest neighbourhoods, Sham Shui Po.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Po ly was having difficulty finding each new breath.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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
The plane in which PO Smith was flying was "a primary weapon of the war in the Pacific".
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
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
The Skid Row post office opened in the 1990s, Garvins said, and served 364 P.O. boxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
When Paxton, the state attorney general, filed the lawsuit in February suing Dallas, a P.O.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
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
That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gustave Rameau in permanent pos session of his ill-merited and ill-ministered fortune.
From The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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