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.
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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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“Ma po tofu was their point of departure,” Chang and Meehan wrote of the restaurant’s employees who created the dish, Tien Ho and Tim Maslow.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023
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
“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
“The Rhône is a land of olive oil,” he writes, “the Rhine a pasture full of butter, the Po alive with the aromas of Parmesan and prosciutto.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
It's a short journey from Zhu's home in Guangzhou on China's southern coast to the crowded street in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po district, where Hunter is sandwiched between fabric sellers, garages and trendy cafes.
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
Germany has her Rhine, through Italy’s valleys, the River Po.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
It was never suggested by anyone in my PO or the Permanent Secretary's Office that I needed to disclose the situation on an updated form.
From BBC ● May 24, 2023
The envelope was addressed to his PO box.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
Those with P.O. boxes have been redirected to a post office on North Vignes Street near Union Station, about two miles away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
You can find, reserve and apply for a P.O. box online.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
They receive election related-mail at shelters, relatives’ addresses, temporary locations or P.O. boxes, and the vast majority vote in person.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
One week later Klein’s shipped the rifle to A. Hidell, P.O.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2023
Even before it could have been delivered to the P.O.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Niebuhr's chief contribution to U.S. liberal thinking, his friends say, is keeping his fellow liberals on the path of the pos sible.
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
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
"The only impartiality pos sible to the human mind," said he once, "is that which arises from an understand ing of neither side of the case."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir, 'There were other Gentlemen nearer, and I know no Necessity you were under to take up that flippant Creature's Fan last Night; but you shall never touch a Stick of mine more, that's pos.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
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