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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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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“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
"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
Roza almost burst into tears herself when she saw the sign in the window: mowimy po polsku tutaj.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Authorities raised the drought alert level to "high" across the entire Po Valley, while experts have issued warnings about potential disruption to the drinking water supply.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“The reason this cluster exists is quite simple: it’s historical,” said retired Gen. Jean-Marc Laurent, a defense and aerospace expert at Sciences Po Bordeaux.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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
Po had held the calling for four years, Brickbane sixteen.
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
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
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
One person made a more drastic suggestion: “Break down and get a P.O. box.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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
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
My P.O. hasn’t realized yet that schools are just like the city and the city is just like prison.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
Haldeman, who had listened to the March 21 tape, had testified to this pos sible confusion of dates by Dean.
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
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 groups of self-appointed trustees fought over pos session of the old shrine, took their squabble into court.
From Time Magazine Archive
I long to see my friend Py pos.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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