postcode

See also: postal code

English

Alternative forms

• post code

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó

Proto-Italic *po

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf.

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti

Proto-Italic *sinō

Proto-Italic *pozinō

Latin ponō

Italian postader.

Middle French postebor.

English post

Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂-

Proto-Italic *kūdō

Latin cūdō?

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ulisder.

Latin caulis?

Latin caudex

Latin cōdex

Old French codebor.

Middle English code

English code

English postcode

From post + code.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊs(t)kəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌkoʊd/

• Audio (Australia):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: post‧code

Noun

postcode (plural postcodes)

1. (UK, Ireland) A sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post or mail.
   1. (by extension) The region denoted by such a sequence.
      • 2007 July 3, Polly Toynbee, “If Chelsea were under water, it would be taken seriously”, in The Guardian:

        The Environment Agency says it is mainly the most deprived postcodes that are the most flood-prone.

2. (Australia, New Zealand) A four-digit number added to a postal address to sort and deliver mail.

Derived terms

• postcode area
• postcode district
• postcode lottery
• postcode sector
• postcode unit
• postcode war

Descendants

• → Swahili: postikodi

Translations

sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address

• Afrikaans: poskode
• Albanian: kod postar m
• Arabic: رَمْز بَرِيدِيّ m (ramz barīdiyy)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܪܸܡܙܵܐ ܒܝܼܠܕܵܪܵܝܵܐ m (rimzā bīldārāyā)

• Armenian: փոստային ինդեքս (pʻostayin indekʻs)
• Azerbaijani: poçt indeksi
• Belarusian: пашто́вы і́ндэкс m (paštóvy índeks)
• Bengali: পোস্ট কোড (pōsṭ kōḍ)
• Bulgarian: по́щенски код m (póštenski kod)
• Burmese: စာတိုက်သင်္ကေတ (catuiksangketa.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 郵政編碼 / 邮政编码 (jau⁴ zing³ pin¹ maa⁵), 郵編 / 邮编 (jau⁴ pin¹), 郵區編號 / 邮区编号 (jau⁴ keoi¹ pin¹ hou⁶)

  Mandarin: 郵政編碼 / 邮政编码 (zh) (yóuzhèng biānmǎ), 郵編 / 邮编 (zh) (yóubiān), 郵遞區號 / 邮递区号 (zh) (yóudì qūhào)

• Czech: směrovací číslo n, poštovní směrovací číslo n, PSČ (cs) n
• Danish: postnummer (da) n
• Dutch: postcode (nl) m, postnummer (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: poŝtkodo (eo)
• Estonian: postiindeks
• Finnish: postinumero (fi)
• French: code postal (fr) m
• Georgian: საფოსტო კოდი (saposṭo ḳodi), საფოსტო ინდექსი (saposṭo indeksi)
• German: PLZ (de) f, Postleitzahl (de) f
• Greek: ταχυδρομικός κώδικας (el) m (tachydromikós kódikas), ΤΚ (el) m (TK)
• Hebrew: מִקּוּד (he) m (mikúd)
• Hindi: पोस्टकोड m (posṭkoḍ)
• Hungarian: irányítószám (hu)
• Icelandic: póstnúmer n
• Ido: kodexo postala
• Indonesian: kode pos
• Irish: postchód m
• Italian: codice postale (it) m
• Japanese: 郵便番号 (ja) (ゆうびんばんごう, yūbin bangō)
• Kazakh: пошта индексі (pošta ıyndeksi)
• Khmer: លេខប្រៃសណីយ៍ (leek praysaʼnii)
• Korean: 우편번호(郵便番號) (upyeonbeonho)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: koda posteyê

• Kyrgyz: почта индекси (pocta indeksi)
• Lao: ລະຫັດໄປສະນີ (la hat pai sa nī)
• Latvian: pasta kods m, pasta indeks m
• Lithuanian: pašto kodas m
• Macedonian: поштенски број m (poštenski broj)
• Malay: poskod (ms)
• Māori: tohu karere
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шуудангийн индекс (šuudangiin indeks)

• Norman: codement postal m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: postnummer (no) n

  Nynorsk: postnummer n

• Pashto: پوستي کوډ m (posti koḍ)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کُدِ پُسْتی (kod-e posti)

• Polish: kod pocztowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: código postal m, código de endereçamento postal m, CEP (pt) m
• Romanian: cod poștal (ro) n
• Russian: почто́вый и́ндекс m (počtóvyj índɛks)
• Scottish Gaelic: còd postachd m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поштански број m, поштански код m

  Latin: poštanski broj m, poštanski kod m

• Silesian: brifkod m
• Sinhalese: තැපැල් කේතය (tæpæl kētaya)
• Slovak: poštové smerovacie číslo n, PSČ (sk) n, smerovacie číslo n
• Slovene: poštna številka f
• Spanish: código postal m
• Swahili: postikodi
• Swedish: postkod (sv) c
• Tajik: нишонаи почта (nišona-yi počta)
• Tamil: அஞ்சல் குறியீடு (añcal kuṟiyīṭu)
• Tatar: почта индексы (poçta indeksı)
• Thai: รหัสไปรษณีย์ (rá-hàt-bprai-sà-nii)
• Turkish: posta kodu (tr)
• Turkmen: poçta indeksi
• Ukrainian: пошто́вий і́ндекс m (poštóvyj índeks)
• Urdu: رَمْزِ ڈاک m (ramz-i ḍāk), پوسْٹ کوڈ m (posṭ koḍ)
• Uzbek: pochta indeksi
• Vietnamese: mã bưu chính, mã thư tín
• Welsh: cod post m

region

• Danish: postnummer (da) n
• Finnish: postinumeroalue (fi)
• Polish: kod pocztowy (pl) m

See also

• postal code
• zip code (for US addresses)

Verb

postcode (third-person singular simple present postcodes, present participle postcoding, simple past and past participle postcoded)

1. (UK, transitive) To give a postcode to; to mark with a postcode.

Anagrams

• topcodes

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of post +‎ code.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔstˌkoː.də/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: post‧co‧de

Noun

postcode m (plural postcodes, no diminutive)

1. a postcode, a postal code