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How to spell post
Post is spelled P-O-S-T.
What it means: To send something by mail.
In a sentence: I put a letter in the mailbox to post it.
Same family: position, appointment, role, job, posting. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: In this sense, "post" comes from an older meaning of a fixed position or station, from Latin "positus," meaning "placed." Over time, it came to refer to a specific place where someone is assigned to work, and then more generally to a job or official position.
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