What part of speech is postbox?

Postbox can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. postbox is a noun, singular of postboxes.

Inflections

Noun

What does postbox mean?

Definitions

Noun

postbox - public box for deposit of mail

Examples of postbox

#   Sentence  
1. noun "Excuse me! Do you happen to know where the nearest corner shop is?" "I do. It's not far. Just go left at that postbox over there and keep going until you come to a side street, and you'll see it there."
2. noun Just as Tom was about to post the letter into the postbox, the wind whipped it out of his hand and blew it under a passing bus, which could do nothing but drive over it with its fat tyres and squash it flat into a puddle.
Sentence  
noun
"Excuse me! Do you happen to know where the nearest corner shop is?" "I do. It's not far. Just go left at that postbox over there and keep going until you come to a side street, and you'll see it there."
Just as Tom was about to post the letter into the postbox, the wind whipped it out of his hand and blew it under a passing bus, which could do nothing but drive over it with its fat tyres and squash it flat into a puddle.

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