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
Lee favors the orange chicken, ma po tofu, lo mein, fried rice and Hunan shrimp in any spread he’s ordering.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2020
"Ma po tofu has to be a favourite," says David Yeung, a smile evident in his voice.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2020
“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
“I like to know whut’s de hurt in lettin dat po chile see her own baby,” Dilsey says.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Po and So waves travel through oceanic plates rather than moving only through the surrounding mantle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Both Po and So waves traveled significantly more slowly beneath the plateau.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
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
For Po and many others, it was a nonnegotiable to see the movie in the highest-fidelity format touted by Nolan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Lee Chong listened while Li Po was read to him in English.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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
PiS, led by 75-year-old Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and Tusk's PO are the two parties that have dominated Polish politics for the last 20 years and some voters are fed up with the duopoly.
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
He has issued an appeal to help find family members and relatives of PO Smith.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
"Big change is coming. This is a sign of Poland's rebirth," PO leader Donald Tusk told crowds gathered in a central Warsaw square, many people waving Polish and EU flags.
From Reuters ● Oct. 1, 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
Mystified, Weaver said he drove there, only to find it was a P.O.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024
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
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
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
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
For eleven years, in one of history's most painstaking carpetbagging expeditions, he virtually turned the papacy and its pos sessions into a family preserve.
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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