poste restante

What does poste restante mean?

poste restante means "the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for poste restante?

Close synonyms include general delivery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is poste restante a common word?

poste restante is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for poste restante come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.