English Explanatory Dictionary

mail

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bag or wallet.
  2. A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
  3. The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
  4. The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
  5. A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
  6. The postal service or system in general.
  7. Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
  8. Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
  9. An email message.
  10. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
verb
  1. To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
  2. To send by electronic mail.
  3. To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
noun
  1. Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
  2. Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
  3. A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
  4. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
  5. A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
verb
  1. To arm with mail.
  2. To pinion.
noun
  1. An old French coin worth half a denier.
  2. A monetary payment or tribute.
  3. Rent.
  4. Tax.

Pronunciation

/meɪl/ en-us-mail.ogg /mel/ /mɛj(ɪ)l/

Word forms

mail mails mailing mailed maille maile maill

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *malhō Frankish *malhabor. Medieval Latin malader. Anglo-Norman malebor. ▲ Old French malebor. Middle English male English mail From Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”). Compare Dutch maal.

Synonyms

snail mail post email

Antonyms

email mail

Related words

mailed

Derived words

accountable mail admail advertising mail aeromail air mail airmail balloon mail barfmail bicycle mail bugmail buttock mail by return mail carry the mail certified mail chain-mail check is in the mail cybermail direct mail dogsled mail echomail electronic mail email e-mail e-mail address facemail fakemail fan mail flamemail freemail Gmail G-mail ham e-mail hate mail jingle mail junk mail mail art mailbag mail bag mailboat mail bomb mail bombing mail box mailbox mail-box mailcall mail car mailcar mail carrier mail-carrier mailcart mailcatcher mail-cheeked mailclad mail clerk mailcoach mail code mail cover maildrop mailfile mail fraud

Translations

Armenian: փոստ Belarusian: по́шта Bulgarian: по́ща Bulgarian: по́щенска слу́жба Czech: pošta Danish: postvæsenet Danish: posten Finnish: posti French: poste Galician: correo German: Post Greek: ταχυδρομείο Hungarian: posta Italian: poste Latvian: pasts Lithuanian: paštas Plautdietsch: Post Portuguese: correio Russian: по́чта Slovak: pošta Spanish: correo Swedish: post Ottoman Turkish: پوسته Ukrainian: по́шта Yiddish: פּאָסט Albanian: thurak Bashkir: һауыт Bulgarian: ризница Catalan: cota de malles Chinese Mandarin: 鎖子甲 /锁子甲 Danish: brynje Dutch: maliënkolder Finnish: rengaspanssari Finnish: silmukkapanssari French: cotte de mailles Galician: cota Galician: loriga Galician: cota de malla German: Ringpanzerhemd German: Kettengeflecht German: Kettenpanzer German: Kettenhemd Greek: θώρακας Greek: πανοπλία Hungarian: páncél Ingrian: rautapaita Italian: maglia Italian: cotta Italian: cotta di maglia Japanese: 鎖帷子 Korean: 쇄자갑 Latin: sūta Middle English: mayle Polish: kolczuga Portuguese: malha Russian: кольчу́га Spanish: malla Spanish: cota de malla Swedish: brynja Ukrainian: кольчу́га
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