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
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
“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
Roza almost burst into tears herself when she saw the sign in the window: mowimy po polsku tutaj.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
After centuries thriving in the Po basin, producers are now trying dry-seeding, which works without continuous flooding.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
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
This was what he’d been taught to do by Brickbane, who’d been taught by Po, who’d been taught by Eddifoot, 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
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 lawmaker Marcin Kierwinski condemned Duda's decision to sign the bill.
From Reuters ● May 29, 2023
It’s big enough to be a ballroom, with gleaming floors and rows of numbered PO boxes and actual sculptures, like a museum.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
When Paxton, the state attorney general, filed the lawsuit in February suing Dallas, a P.O.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
If you can afford to, you can rent a P.O. box at your local post office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
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
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
They had a registered letter sent to the P.O. box listed under Miller’s name, then they nabbed Morrison when he went to retrieve it.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
The best of these dramas pos sess poetic eloquence, humanistic compassion and arresting vitality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Haldeman, who had listened to the March 21 tape, had testified to this pos sible confusion of dates by Dean.
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
"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
I am thinking for my Edinburgh expedition on Monday or Tuesday, come se’ennight, for pos.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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