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e-dress

e-dress noun: an email address, a unique identifier specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.

Noun

e-dress (plural e-dresses)

  1. An email address, a unique identifier specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.
    • As I added my info, one e-dress caught my eye: […]2001, Andy Anderson, “Ask Doctor Rowing: A tale of three New Yorkers”, in The Independent Rowing News, Volume 9, Number 2 (2001 March 15), ISSN 1548-694X, page 54
    • Had someone at the paper given out his home e-dress?2002, Tim Waggoner, All Too Surreal, Prime Books, →ISBN, page 92

Examples of e-dress in a sentence

  • Each expeditioner has an e-dress on board and on the station.2002, Hazel Edwards, Antarctic writer on ice: diary of an enduring adventure, Common Ground, →ISBN, page 31:
  • But he wasn’t responding to her messages on his Lucky Dog e-dress.2007, Richard Hawke, Cold Day in Hell, Random House, →ISBN:
  • Unmunge my e-dress (I think its self explanatory).2010 July 29, Adelle, “Re: Formatting replies”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

Synonyms of e-dress

Forms of e-dress

plurale-dresses
alternative formedress

Origin of e-dress

A shortening of e-mail address.

Questions about e-dress

What does e-dress mean?
E-dress means an email address, a unique identifier specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.
How do you use e-dress in a sentence?
Each expeditioner has an e-dress on board and on the station.
What part of speech is e-dress?
E-dress is a noun.
What is the plural of e-dress?
The plural of e-dress is e-dresses.

Words near e-dress in the dictionary

  1. e-documents
  2. e-donation
  3. e-donations
  4. e-drama
  5. e-dramas
  6. e-dress
  7. e-dresses
  8. E-DRM
  9. e-ducation
  10. e-economies
  11. e-economy

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