e-mail

Noun (1)

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

1. (uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
   • He sent me his details via email.

   Synonyms:

   mail

   Antonyms:

   mail, post, snail mail

2. (uncountable) The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
   • I am searching through my old email.

   Synonyms:

   mail

   Antonyms:

   mail, post, snail mail

3. (countable) A message being sent through email.
   • He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.

   Synonyms:

   mail

   Antonyms:

   mailpiece

4. (countable, informal) An email address.
   • What’s your email?

Noun (2)

email (plural emails)

1. (obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).
   • Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!1579 January 10, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented to Elizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor...

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