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s | posthaste |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adverb posthaste is

quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.

As a noun posthaste is

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s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    posthaste

    English

    Alternative forms

    * post-haste, post haste

    Adverb

    (-)
  • quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed
    • It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste .
  • * 1946 — , Ch. 17
    • "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

    * (quickly) ASAP, quickly * See also

    Noun

    (-)
  • * 1602 : , act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
    • ''"And this, I take it,
    ''Is the main motive of our preparations
    ''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
    Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
    English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs