- stamp [countable]
- 1
mail
also postage stamp formala small piece of paper that you buy and stick onto an envelope or package before posting it : a 29-cent stamp
Richard collects stamps.
a second-class stamp
- 2
printed mark
a tool for pressing or printing a mark or pattern onto a surface, or the mark made by this tool : a date stamp
a passport stamp
- 3
the stamp of something
if something has the stamp of a particular quality, it clearly has that quality The speech bore (=had) the stamp of authority.
- 4
payment
British Englisha small piece of paper that is worth a particular amount of money and is bought and collected for something over a period of time : television licence stamps
- 5
tax
British Englisha piece of paper for sticking to some official papers to show that British tax has been paid - 6
of ... stamp
formalsomeone with a particular kind of character : He's clearly of a very different stamp.
- 7
with foot
an act of stamping, especially with your foot : an angry stamp
- ➔ food stamp
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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