postmaster

The head of a post office.

Noun

  1. The head of a post office.
    • With that, Elvin Mercado became the postmaster of Manhattan, ruling the mails from the palatial James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue. - 2014 May 14, Andy Newman, “New York Today: Meet Your Postmaster”, in The...
  2. The administrator of an electronic mail system.
  3. A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
  4. One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.

Origin

Etymology tree English post English master English postmaster From post + master.

Forms

postmasters

Derived

Postmaster General postmastership subpostmaster