Meanings
plural e-mails
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of email.
I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2621 more example
She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman.
2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 57
present singular third person e-mails · participle present e-mailing · participle past e-mailed · past e-mailed
- alternativeAlternative form of email.
In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat.
2009 August 5, Matt Richtel, “Federal Agency Plans Distracted Driving Forum”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
nouna message sent over the internet via the email system
nounan identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with e-mail
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e-mail. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/e-mail
“e-mail.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/e-mail. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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