postal

From post +‎ -al, modelled on French postal.^[1]

• (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈpoʊstl̩]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈpəʊstl̩]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊstəl
• Hyphenation US: post‧al, UK: pos‧tal

postal (not comparable)

1. Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

   He's a postal worker, and has been in the postal industry for decades.

   We sell stamps and stationery for all your postal needs.

2. (US, slang) Crazy, insane.

   to go postal

   • 1999, "Daria Dance Party" (Daria, season 3 episode 4)

     SANDI: Maybe I should just have my own party, since you obviously think I'm postal.

• post
• post office
• postally used

• Tony Thorne (2014), “postal”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury

• A plots, plasto-, ploats

From posta +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pusˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [posˈtal]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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postal m or f (masculine and feminine plural postals)

1. postal

postal f (plural postals)

1. clipping of targeta postal

• “postal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From poste +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.tal/

• Audio:

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postal (feminine postale, masculine plural postaux, feminine plural postales)

1. postal

• “postal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: pos‧tal

postal m or f (plural postais)

1. postal (relating to mail)

postal m (plural postais)

1. postcard

   Synonyms: cartão-postal, bilhete-postal

• “postal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “postal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

postal m or n (feminine singular postală, masculine plural postali, feminine/neuter plural postale)

1. obsolete form of poștal

• postal in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From posta +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /posˈtal/ [posˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pos‧tal

postal m or f (masculine and feminine plural postales)

1. postal

postal f (plural postales)

1. postcard

• “postal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “telepostal”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010