📬 A mail box 📧 An email inbox

mailbox

22 1.6

A place on your phone or computer where new email messages are kept

noun
/ˈmeɪlˌbɑks/

Texting

: bandeja de entrada

The mailbox is full and cannot accept any messages...
check your mailbox
mailbox full
arrives in your mailbox

Our tested mailbox is findable at Tested's website.

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Examples

But his cell phone said his mailbox was full.

The Intruder (2019)
By checking my mailbox, I realized I had received an important update.
And we went into our own mailbox, right?
- I found this in my mailbox this morning.

Deathrow Gameshow (1987)
- Yeah, you should check your mailbox.

Paula & Jeff (2018)
You have no new messages in your mailbox.

The Big Wedding (2013)
Five seconds after the message was sent, her incoming mailbox announced a response.

Fiction book (1996)
It was all right there in the mailbox.

The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
VOICEMAIL: Welcome to your voice mailbox.

Next Goal Wins (2023)
The website's mailbox feature allows students to send e-postcards to their friends and contact the magazine.

Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

mail

vsmailbox

Texting

203 1.0

Messages sent or received over the internet

stores and manages incoming items rather than being the items themselves

inbox

vsmailbox

Texting

42 1.8

A digital place where you receive new emails and messages

is the folder used to store and manage incoming messages

Surface Forms

mailbox singular

mailboxes plural

Morphology

mailbox = mail + box (semi-transparent) = mail + box

The electronic 'mailbox' is a metaphorical extension of a physical box for mail; the composition is clear but the domain shift to electronic storage is a non-literal extension.

Etymology

The word mailbox for email keeps the same parts mail and box. It means a 'box' for 'messages' on your computer or phone, so an email mailbox is where incoming messages are kept.