Does post mean after?

Question

Post as in Post haste, Post game etc

Answer 1

The word POST has several distinct meanings.

Your two examples are quite different.

Post-haste has nothing to do with after; it means with great speed (probably related to the official conveyance of parcels, letters, etc. ... while Americans send it, or used to send it, by mail, the British send it by post).

In post-game, POST is a prefix meaning after in time or order.

There's also POST no bills, the POSTS that are set upright in the ground, the finish POST in a race, POSTING a letter, keeping someone POSTED, entries that are POSTED in a ledger, the first or last POST (bugle-calls), a military POST....

Answer 2

Yes it does mean after.

Answer 3

Yes it does mean after.

Answer 4

Yes it does mean after.

Answer 5

Yes it does mean after.

Answer 6

Yes it does mean after.

Answer 7

Yes it does mean after.

Answer 8

In post-game, postscript, postpartum, postmenopausal, yes, but Greg is right about the letterboxes with regard to post-haste, which just means "fast like the Post Office". We may be living in a post-fast post world now though.

Answer 9

It does - it is Latin. The opposite of Ante-



Post scriptum (After writing)

Post Meridien (After noon)

Post Hoc (After this)

Post Bellum (After the war)

Post Natal (After giving Birth)



Strictly speaking is should be used with other Latin words, but is often seen in conjunction with English words eg Post Match analysis.



In your example it means fast postal delivery - the 16th century equivalent of Express.

Answer 10

Yes. Post-war, for example, means after the war. Pre-war would mean before the war.

Answer 11

Post=after (always and it has no other meaning although its useage sometimes requires a bit of a stetch of the imagination.

Answer 12

Yes it does.....pre.....means before ...and post means after.

Answer 13

"Post haste" means "very quickly, as a mailman (postman) might travel". But that is a one-off use of "post" as an expression.



Many expressions with "post" do mean "after", and that comes from the Latin "post" meaning "after". Some people do over-use "post", just as they over-use "pre" and "re" and other prefixes and suffixes from Latin.

Answer 14

post-

prefix

1.

after in time or sequence; following; subsequent: postgraduate

2.

behind; posterior to: postorbital



http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/post-?r=66



http://www.thefreedictionary.com/post-

Answer 15

No it means to put a letter in a letterbox

Answer 16

No it means to put a letter in a letterbox

Answer 17

Yes.

Answer 18

Yes.

Answer 19

Yes.

Answer 20

Post Haste is 16thC English and means to go somewhere at speed as fast as possible as in urgently.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDd2z6Tu1UE





London UK

Answer 21

[L. post behind, after; cf. Skr. paçcābehind, afterwards.] A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.



http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=post-&use1913=on



http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=post-

Answer 22

post- (prefix)



1. after in time or sequence; following; subsequent ⇒ "postgraduate"

2. behind; posterior to ⇒ "postorbital"



http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/post-



http://www.wordnik.com/words/post-

Answer 23

No it means to put a letter in a letterbox

Answer 24

That is why the mail is always late