Posthouse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Posthouse is a noun meaning (film, television) A company that carries out post-production.
Meaning
(film, television) A company that carries out post-production.
More Meanings
- (historical) A house at a staging post: an inn with a stable where relays of horses could be changed, for stagecoaches or the mails.
- (obsolete) A building for distributing mail; a post office.
Example Sentences
Slow motion, fades, wipes, and text — once only affordable for major broadcasters and posthouses — now allowed DIY video producers a more polished, professional look.
At each mile there are little guardhouses, where a policeman is stationed; and there is a wooden gong, which by means of concerted signals may be made to convey information over the country with great rapidity. About every six or seven miles is the post-house, where the horses are changed as quickly as were those of the mail in the old coaching days in England.
Word Forms
- posthouses
- post house
- post-house
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include post house, stagehouse, post, stationhouse, hostelry, porthouse.
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