See Also: Raffles(dictionary)
Raffles(dictionary)
Raffles Hospital(health)
Raffles Surgicentre(health)
Raffles Hotel(dictionary)
Raffles, Sir (Thomas) Stamford(encyclopedia)
postal(dictionary)
postal(dictionary)
postal service(medicine)
postal system(encyclopedia)

Raffles Hotel (oh) and postal (iou)


Raffles Hotel (oh)



a famous old hotel in Singapore, in a beautiful 19th century building. It is a popular place for wealthy people to stay, and is named after Sir Stamford Raffles, who brought Singapore under British control in 1819.

postal (iou)



postal adjective & noun. M19.
[French postal(e), from poste POST noun2: see -AL1.]
A. adjective. Of or pertaining to the post; conveyed by or using the post. M19.
go postal US colloq. [with ref. to cases in which postal employees have run amok and shot colleagues] become irrational and violent, esp. from stress. postal ballot = postal vote below. postal card US a postcard. postal code = POSTCODE. postal currency US (obsolete exc. Hist.) a paper currency bearing designs similar to those of postage stamps of the appropriate values and issued during the American Civil War to replace the actual postage stamps then being used instead of lower denomination silver coin. postal note (chiefly US, Austral., & NZ) a postal order. postal order an order issued by a post office for the payment of a specified sum to a named payee at a post office. Postal Union a union of the governments of various countries for the regulation of international postage. postal vote a vote in an election, on a resolution, etc., submitted by post on a special form.
b. ellipt. as noun.
A postcard; a postal order. US colloq. L19.
A mail train or carriage. US colloq. L19.
postali'zation noun the act or process of postalizing a public service M20.
postalize verb trans. make (a public service) like the postal system in respect of fixed prices for delivery regardless of distance L19.
postally adverb for postal purposes; in the post; as far as postal matters are concerned: L19.