pillar box
A free-standing item of street furniture in the form of a short, red pillar with a…A free-standing item of street furniture in the form of a short, red pillar (green in the Irish Republic) with a slot for posting letters.
» Will you be passing a pillar box?
Kommst du an einem Briefkasten vorbei?
Meaning
1 senses(Ireland, UK)A free-standing item of street furniture in the form of a short, red pillar (green in the Irish Republic) with a slot for posting letters.
Postbriefkasten
- a red pillar-shaped letter box
Examples
4 sentencesWill you be passing a pillar box?
deKommst du an einem Briefkasten vorbei? — raggione
Is there a pillar box near here?
deGibt es hier in der Nähe einen Briefkasten? — MUIRIEL
Where's the pillar box?
deWo ist der Briefkasten? — al_ex_an_der
At that same moment I saw a man on the opposite side of the street putting an envelope into a pillar box.
deIm selben Moment sah ich einen Mann, der auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite der Straße einen Umschlag in einen Postbriefkasten warf. — al_ex_an_der
Translations
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Forms
plural: pillar boxes| Singular | pillar box |
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