1
: elegant, fashionable
a posh restaurant
2
British
: typical of or intended for the upper classes : highfalutin
posh accents
poshly
adverb
poshness
noun
Examples of posh in a Sentence
They live in a posh neighborhood.
The family is very posh.
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Griffin is now incarcerated in a posh Club Fed, in Ashland, KY.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Then he was located in a posh suburb of São Paulo, Brazil.
—Moisés Naím, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Churches, libraries, and houses stand splintered and rotting next to posh tourist resorts, the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
This person had a posh English accent and sounded annoyed.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Then he was located in a posh suburb of São Paulo, Brazil.
—Moisés Naím, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Churches, libraries, and houses stand splintered and rotting next to posh tourist resorts, the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
This person had a posh English accent and sounded annoyed.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for posh
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“Posh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/posh. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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