Definitions for postern

postern pos·tern

Spelling: [poh-stern, pos-tern]
IPA: /ˈpoʊ stərn, ˈpɒs tərn/

Postern is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in postern (enoprst).

Definitions for postern

noun

  1. a back door or gate.
  2. a private entrance or any entrance other than the main one.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling a postern.

Origin of postern

1250-1300; Middle English posterne Old French, variant of posterle Late Latin posterula, diminutive of postera back door, noun use of feminine of posterus coming behind. See Examples for postern

After they had passed the postern, Honey-Bee again asked where they were going.

If I do but send them a message they will surely come to the postern gate.

Astonishment robbed me of breath as he threw open the postern.

Cowper assumes a second postern, but there is no evidence for this, and l. 139 ff.

I considered your coachman to be a faithful man, and I told him to wait for you at the postern.

This postern was re-edified by William Hampton, fishmonger, mayor, in the year 1472.

As each man did so he had to retire by a postern leading to the sea.

He knocked, and presently the postern gaped, and a lantern was advanced.

"That road leads to the postern gate at the top of the hill," she added.

I was peering through the slit in the postern, not twenty feet away.

Word Value for postern
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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