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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: post-haste and post haste

English

[edit] WOTD – 22 June 2006

Alternative forms

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• post-haste, post haste
• postehaste, poste-haste (archaic)

Etymology

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From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post +‎ haste.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpəʊstˈheɪst/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˌpoʊstˈheɪst/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

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posthaste (not comparable)

1. (formal, dated) Quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed. It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.
   • 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “Chapter 17”, in Autobiography of a Yogi:"Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.

Synonyms

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• (quickly): ASAP, quickly
• See also Thesaurus:quickly

Translations

[edit] quickly — see quickly

Noun

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posthaste (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of post-haste.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page 1, lines 103-106:"And this, I take it,Is the main motive of our preparationsThe source of this our watch, and the chief headOf this post-haste and rummage in the land."

Anagrams

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• heatspots

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