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e-mail

e-mail

1.0
A message sent over the internet to another person
  • noun
  • /ˈiːˌmeɪl/
  • Texting
translation icon : correo electrónico
  • You will receive an e-mail from my team with the project details.

I press send, I get an e-mail back one minute later.

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Examples

  • So then you sent another e-mail two days later.

  • I wrote this long e-mail and then hit send.

  • You will get an e-mail from my team.

  • The next day, I get an e-mail from that partner.

  • So you received an e-mail from a client?

  • Every week I sent an e-mail to all employees.

  • As a result, they get a lot of e-mail traffic from the team.

  • Then I had gotten an e-mail from a company.

  • Would you read a weekly e-mail update from Hank and John?

  • We have an e-mail that's just come through.

Synonyms

email
vse-mail
  • Texting
724 1.0

A message sent over the internet to another person

focuses on the item as networked communication rather than sender relationships
e-mail message
vse-mail
  • Texting
6 1.0

A message sent by email over the internet

is the same meaning but written with a hyphen
email message
vse-mail
  • Texting
5 1.0

A message that someone sends by computer to another person over the internet

is the same meaning but written as two separate words

Surface Forms

e-mail singular
emails plural
emails plural
email singular

Morphology

e-mail = mail (transparent) = e + mail

The compound is a regular prefixation with 'e-' meaning electronic applied to 'mail'.

Etymology

The word e-mail comes from e- 'electronic' plus mail 'post'. So an e-mail is a message like a letter, but sent and received by computer.