email

A1
US /ˈiˌmeɪl/ UK /ˈiːmeɪl/
noun verb Freq #5486

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.

    He sent me his details via email.

  2. 2
    noun

    The quantity of messages sent through an email system.

    I am searching through my old email.

  3. 3
    noun

    A message being sent through email.

    He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.

  4. 4
    noun

    An email address.

    What’s your email?

  5. 5
    verb

    To send an email or emails to.

    She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.

  6. 6
    verb

    To send (data) through email.

    I’ll email you the link.

  7. 7
    verb

    To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.

    Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

  8. 8
    noun

    Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).

    Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a system for sending... mail
2 noun · the quantity of messages... mail
3 noun · a message being sent... mail
Word family
Derived forms e-barrassmentemaileeemaileremailgateemailwarefreemailplay-by-email
Related forms webmail

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