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POTS

noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • General-American: /pɑts/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /pɒts/
  • rhymes with -ɒts
  • CMU ARPABET: P AA1 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Acronym of publicly offered telephone service/system: the public telephone network

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: publicly offered telephone service, publicly offered telephone system, PSTN, public switched telephone network

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Acronym of plain old telephone service/system: the old analog landline circuit-switched telephone network

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: plain old telephone service, plain old telephone system

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Initialism of post/postal office telephone service/system

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism, uncountable

Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: post office telephone service, post office telephone system, postal office telephone service, postal office telephone system

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Abbreviation of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

plural of pot

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A large quantity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, plural, plural-only

Examples

  • We’re going to make pots of money selling my invention!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

third-person singular simple present indicative of pot

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.