post-office box

Questions about post-office box

What is another word for post-office box?

It depends which post-office box you mean. In the sense “a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for”, the synonyms are PO Box, POB, call box, letter box. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of post-office box?

WordNet records no antonym for post-office box. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for post-office box come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of post-office box

• Full entry for post-office boxAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for post-office boxWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.