une poste (feminine) is a post office ; un poste (masculine noun) is a job or position in a company, administration, or administrative quango; or it could be the place or spot where you are assigned to (ex: poste de combat = combat post) ; un poste de police is a small police station.
Un poste is a French equivalent of the Italian word un posto. The masculine singular nouns overlaps in their translation into English as "job," "position," or "post." The respective pronunciations will be "eh puhst" in French and "oon PO-sto" in Italian.
Un haut in French means "a summit" or "one top" in English.
Un dragon (French) is spelled 'a dragon' (English).
Un hublot in French means "a porthole" in English.
There are several meanings for the word 'poste' in French. Masculine noun: un poste - a position in a company, a role, a combat post for a soldier; feminine noun: une poste, la poste - this is the post office.
A postage stamp is 'un timbre / un timbre-poste' in French.
Un film en anglais in French means "a film in English" in English.
The English article "a" is translated "un" (masculine) or "une" (feminine) in French.
Vous êtes un mégot! in French is "You are a cigarette butt!" in English.
Ayez un jour béni! in French is "Have a blessed day!" in English.
a lamb is called 'un agneau' in French.
'un cocktail' (masc.)