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 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
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
“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
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
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
Italy’s longest river, the Po, is essential for irrigating farmland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Seated across from me was an American man, about the same age as Lau Po, maybe fifty.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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
The PO says it does not have an open-door migrant policy and says none of the questions represent their policies.
From Reuters ● Aug. 14, 2023
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
The envelope was addressed to his PO box.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
Mystified, Weaver said he drove there, only to find it was a P.O.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024
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
Letters to the deceased can be sent to Sleepy Sue Studio, P.O.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
Or anyone could, like Oswald, scribble a name and information on a mail-order coupon and have it delivered to a P.O. box a few weeks later.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2023
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
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
Two groups of self-appointed trustees fought over pos session of the old shrine, took their squabble into court.
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
The best of these dramas pos sess poetic eloquence, humanistic compassion and arresting vitality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Discharge between balls B and D. Discharge between balls A and C. Small ball B inductric pos.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
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