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Definition 2025
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Abbreviation of electronic mail
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiːmeɪl/
- Rhymes: -iːmeɪl
Noun
email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)
- (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
- He sent me his details via email.
- The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- (countable) A message sent via an email system.
- He sent me an email last week to that effect.
- I am searching through my old emails.
- (uncountable) A quantity of email messages.
- I am searching through my old email.
- My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
- (informal) An e-mail address.
- What's your email?
- Don't send personal messages to my work email.
Translations
system
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message sent via email
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an email address
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Verb
email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)
- (transitive) To send an email or emails to.
- She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
- (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.
- Most teenagers spend twenty-six hours a day emailing and surfing the Web.
- (transitive, may take two objects) To send via email.
- I'll email you the link.
- He emailed the file out to everyone.
Translations
to send an email or emails to
intransitive: to send an email or emails
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to send via email
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- enPR: ĕ-mālʹ, IPA(key): /ɛˈmeɪl/
- Rhymes: -eɪl
Noun
email (plural emails)
- (obsolete, circa 13th century) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document
- A type of dark ink
Anagrams
Czech
Alternative forms
Noun
email m
Usage notes
Some institutions discourage this spelling of electronic communication in favor of e-mail.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
email n (uncountable)
Derived terms
- emaillen