(UK, Ireland) A sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post or mail.
Used in a Sentence
postcode
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for postcode.
Editorial note
My home address shares the postcode with about 15 other houses on the same side of the road (odd numbers 1-31).
Examples11
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
(UK, Ireland) A sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post or mail.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of postcode gathered in one view.
(Australia, New Zealand) A four-digit number added to a postal address to sort and deliver mail.
(by extension) The region denoted by such a sequence.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for postcode.
noun
(UK, Ireland) A sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post or mail.
See also: postal-code, zip-code
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A four-digit number added to a postal address to sort and deliver mail.
See also: postal-code, zip-code
noun
(by extension) The region denoted by such a sequence.
See also: postal-code, zip-code
verb
(UK) To give a postcode to; to mark with a postcode.
See also: postal-code, zip-code
Example sentences
My home address shares the postcode with about 15 other houses on the same side of the road (odd numbers 1-31).
I'm assuming this is the Postcode to OS Grid number dataset like the leak a few months back.
> Based on the postcode they held on file, my phone number was obtained over 8 years ago!
I thought postcode (PAF) data was owned by Royal Mail, not the OS?
My postcode had the wrong bounding box and some new roads were missing from it, MapMaker made it possible for me to get deliveries much more easily.
I'm in the CR* postcode (Croydon Borough) for example.
The postcode also makes everything apart from the number irrelevant in the eyes of the post office - you can address items to 10, GL10 2AB and it will end up where it needs to go.
Quote examples
He said it would "possibly" be enough to help websites that want to use postcode data.
Let's not count our chickens before they hatch: "Harry Metcalfe, who helped sites get at postcode data, said he was "cautiously optimistic" about the decision to open up the OS data sets.
In a speech today, Gordon Brown had the following to say: "And from April next year ordnance survey will open up information about administrative boundaries, postcode areas and mid-scale mapping." So that seems a bit less tentative to me.
Proper noun examples
Postcode centroid <-> lat/long has been open data since the initial OS OpenData release.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use postcode in a sentence?
My home address shares the postcode with about 15 other houses on the same side of the road (odd numbers 1-31).
What does postcode mean?
(UK, Ireland) A sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post or mail.
What part of speech is postcode?
postcode is commonly used as noun, verb.