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email

email

305 1.0
The address you use to send and receive messages online
  • noun
  • /ˈiːmeɪl/
  • Texting
translation icon : dirección de correo electrónico
  • I see your email here.
  • email address
  • email and website

All these numbers, all these emails, no one writes them down.

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Examples

  • I got his number and his email and his address.

  • If not, name and e-mail are totally fine.

  • Let me just find the e-mail where we talked about it.

  • Your mother gave me your email address, and I want to see if mine works.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • I think they got a hold of my email address at work too.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • No, I haven't checked my email in a while.

  • Students would have enjoyed more face-to-face time with their email pals, but time differences made that difficult.

    Academic text (2013)
  • I encourage all chapters and members to send in notices to this column via email to: jzaia@juno.com.

    Academic text (1999)
  • OK, check your email.

  • You need to provide your email address to receive the newsletter.

Synonyms

email address
vsemail
  • Texting
80 2.3

A unique name used to send and receive email, like user@example.com

is written as a single unhyphenated word
e-mail address
vsemail
  • Texting
30 1.1

A special name people use to send and receive messages online

is written as a single unhyphenated word
e-mail
vsemail
  • Texting
1.3

The address people give others so they can send messages online

is written as a single unhyphenated word

Idioms

A comment that a meeting is unnecessary because the information can be sent by email

Compounds

email address
  • Texting
80 2.3

A unique name used to send and receive email, like user@example.com

email message
  • Texting
5 1.0

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

chain email
  • Texting
1 3.5

An email that asks you to forward it to many people, often with threats or promises

Surface Forms

email singular
emails plural
e-mails plural
Emails plural
e-mail singular
Email singular

Morphology

email = mail (transparent) = e + mail

The identifier/address sense is transparently related to electronic 'mail' as the address used for sending and receiving messages.

Etymology

Email can also mean the address you use to get messages, because the word for the message came to mean the place where messages arrive. So your email is the address others use to send you messages by computer.