postal

From post +‎ -al, modelled on French postal.^[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈpoʊstl̩]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈpəʊstl̩]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊstəl
• Hyphenation US: post‧al, UK: pos‧tal

postal (not comparable)

1. Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

   postal worker

   for all your postal needs

   work in the postal industry

2. (US, slang) Crazy, insane.
   • 1999, "Daria Dance Party" (Daria, season 3 episode 4)

     SANDI: Maybe I should just have my own party, since you obviously think I'm postal.

• post
• post office
• postally used
• go postal

• A plots, plasto-, ploats

From posta +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pusˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [posˈtal]

postal m or f (masculine and feminine plural postals)

1. postal

postal f (plural postals)

1. clipping of targeta postal

• “postal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.tal/

• Audio:

  (file)

postal (feminine postale, masculine plural postaux, feminine plural postales)

1. postal

• “postal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: pos‧tal

postal m or f (plural postais)

1. postal (relating to mail)

postal m (plural postais)

1. postcard

   Synonyms: cartão-postal, bilhete-postal

postal m or n (feminine singular postală, masculine plural postali, feminine and neuter plural postale)

1. obsolete form of poștal

• postal in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From posta +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /posˈtal/ [posˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pos‧tal

postal m or f (masculine and feminine plural postales)

1. postal

postal f (plural postales)

1. postcard

• “postal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “telepostal”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010