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# postbox

«postbox» in Mova's school dictionary: **A public box, often red in the UK, where you put letters…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (postbox, postboxes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) A public box, often red in the UK, where you put letters to be collected and posted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/#m1)

2) A private box at your house or a post office where your own mail is delivered (more often «letterbox» or «mailbox»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday life in Britain and Ireland: red pillar boxes in the UK, green postboxes in Ireland, red in Australia and New Zealand. In the USA and Canada people say «mailbox». In stories, posting a letter to Father Christmas in the postbox. Phrases: «put it in the postbox», «the nearest postbox», «collection times».

### examples

- I put my birthday card to Grandma in the postbox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/#x1)
- The red postbox is at the end of our street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/#x2)
- In Ireland, postboxes are painted green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/#x3)
- The collection time on the postbox says half past five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/#x4)
- We posted our letter to Santa in the postbox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/#x5)
- Is there a postbox near the school? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/#x6)

### note

Plural: postboxes. US/Canadian word: «mailbox». British «letterbox» usually means the slot in your front door. Also written «post box» (two words). Do not put anything dangerous in a postbox.

### In the corpora

- [Kieran from her own street stared at her in class and went red as a postbox whenever she looked back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «postbox» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postbox/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.