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English
Etymology
From electronic + mail.
Pronunciation
Alternative spellings
Noun
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Singular e-mail |
Plural countable and uncountable; plural e-mails |
e-mail (countable and uncountable; plural e-mails)
- (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
- He sent me his details via e-mail.
- The advent of e-mail has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- (countable; see Usage notes below) A message sent via an e-mail system.
- I am searching through my old e-mails.
- He sent me several e-mails last week to that effect.
- (uncountable; see Usage notes below) A quantity of e-mail messages.
- I am searching through my old e-mail.
- My inbox used to only allow 50 MB of e-mail at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
- (informal) An e-mail address.
- What's your e-mail?
Usage notes
This section does not cite its references or sources. You can help Wiktionary verify this information by introducing appropriate citations.- The spellings e-mail and email are both in common use. The use of “email” is now more widespread, likely due to one less character and thus making it easier to write or type, and is becoming a standardized usage for most businesses and Internet users. In general, the hyphenated form is more likely to be considered proper by those who follow strict grammatical rules; however, as a recently coined word, it remains an unsettled matter at this point.
- As a contraction of electronic mail, some feel that e-mail should follow the same pluralization rules and be uncountable, prohibiting the forms e-mails and an e-mail. Others feel that it is not necessary for e-mail to maintain grammatical similarity to mail, and prefer to pluralize the term as a countable noun. This issue is hotly debated, but it is seldom considered incorrect to use the uncountable form.
Derived terms
- e-mail forward
Verb
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Infinitive to e-mail |
Third person singular e-mails |
Simple past e-mailed |
Past participle e-mailed |
Present participle e-mailing |
to e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)
- To compose and send an e-mail
Translations
to compose and send an e-mailSee also
Anagrams
Czech
Alternative spellings
Noun
e-mail m.
Italian
Noun
e-mail f. and m. inv.
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China Daily
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) opened an email box for the public on May 6, 2009 to report criminal activity.. By the end of August it had received ...
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