air mail

A form of airmail — The system of conveying mail using aircraft.

Opposite
surface mail
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Meanings

nounair mail (countable and uncountable, plural air mails)

plural air mails

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of airmail.
    1 more example

    Universal Directory of Railway Officials and Railway Year Book, 1942-1943. The Directory Publishing Co. Ltd., [...] Westminster, S.W.1. [...] Price 20s. net.—[...] The compilers have used the air mails to a greater extent than ever before, and so have the railway administrations in transmitting their replies.

    1942 November and December, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 383
verbair mail (third-person singular simple present air mails, present participle air mailing, simple past and past participle air mailed)

present singular third person air mails · participle present air mailing · participle past air mailed · past air mailed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of airmail.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounmail that is sent by air transport

Opposite
surface mail
Broader
mail

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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