Repost

How to spell repost

6 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce repost

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does repost mean?

1. verbTo publish or share a message, image, or article online again, often passing on someone else's content.
2. nounAn online message or item that is a republished copy of an earlier one.

Repost in a sentence

• verb

  Please repost the schedule once the final times are confirmed.

• noun

  The photo was just a repost from an account she had seen last week.

• verb

  Thousands of followers chose to repost the charity appeal.

• noun

  Every repost on the feed credited the original author.

Where does repost come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This is a modern compound built from the prefix re-, meaning 'again' or 'back', and the verb 'post', which itself traces to the Latin ponere, meaning 'to place' or 'to set down'. The 'post' element entered English through the world of mail and notices, where to post something meant to send it on its way or to fix it up on a board for everyone to see. With the rise of internet forums and social media in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, 'post' came to mean publishing a message online, and 'repost' was coined naturally to describe sharing that content a second time. The spelling keeps a clean seam between the prefix and the root, which is why there is no doubled letter and no hyphen in standard use. Because it is a transparent re- formation, it follows the same pattern as 'reprint', 'resend', and 'reissue'.

How the word is built

• re- (again)
• post (to publish or display, from Latin ponere: to place)