IMPOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impost mean? 

• IMPOST (noun)
  The noun IMPOST has 2 senses:

1. money collected under a tariff

2. the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs

  Familiarity information: IMPOST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPOST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money collected under a tariff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

custom; customs; customs duty; impost

Hypernyms ("impost" is a kind of...):

duty; tariff (a government tax on imports or exports)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impost"):

ship money (an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

impost; springer

Hypernyms ("impost" is a kind of...):

stone (building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose)

Holonyms ("impost" is a part of...):

arch ((architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it)