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# postilion

«postilion» in Mova's school dictionary: **A servant who rode on one of the horses pulling a coach…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (postilions) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

A servant who rode on one of the horses pulling a coach, guiding the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postilion/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old coach stories, the rider who guides the horses of a carriage.

### examples

- The postilion blew his horn as the coach rolled on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postilion/#x1)
- Your father was the postilion, said Ajola. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postilion/#x2)
- The robbers killed the coachman and the postilions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postilion/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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