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English
Etymology
From electronic + mail.
Pronunciation
IPA: /ËiËmeɪl/
SAMPA: /<tt>"i:meIl</tt>/
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Alternative spellings
email
Noun
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- uncountable A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
#: He sent me his details via e-mail.
#: The advent of e-mail has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- (countable; see Usage notes below) An e-mail message.
#: I am searching through my old e-mails.
#: He sent me several e-mails last week to that effect.
- (uncountable; see Usage notes below) A quantity of e-mail messages.
#: I am searching through my old e-mail.
#: My inbox used to only allow 50 MB of e-mail at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
Usage notes
The spellings e-mail and email are both in common use. The use of âemailâ is now more widespread, likely due to one less character and thus making it easier to write or type, and is becoming a standardized usage for most businesses and Internet users. In general, the hyphenated form is more likely to be considered proper by those who follow strict grammatical rules; however, as a recently coined word, it remains an unsettled matter at this point.
As a contraction of electronic mail, some feel that e-mail should follow the same pluralization rules and be uncountable, prohibiting the forms e-mails and an e-mail. Others feel that it is not necessary for e-mail to maintain grammatical similarity to mail, and prefer to pluralize the term as a countable noun. This issue is hotly debated, but it is seldom considered incorrect to use the uncountable form.
Translations
trans-top|system
Chinese: é»åéµä»¶, çµåé®ä»¶ (dià n zÇ yóu jià n)
Esperanto: retpoÅto
Estonian: e-post
Faroese: t-|fo|teldupostur|m|xs=Faroese
Finnish: t-|fi|sähköposti
French: courrier électronique m, courriel m, email#French|email m (deprecated anglicism)
German: t|de|E-Mail|f
Greek: ηλεκÏÏÎ¿Î½Î¹ÎºÏ ÏαÏÏ
δÏομείο (ilektronikó taçiðromÃo) n, e-mail#Greek|e-mail (iméjl) n
trans-mid
Hebrew: ×××ר ××ק×ר×× × (do'ar elektroni)
Icelandic: tölvupóstur m, netpóstur m, e-mail n
Japanese: é»åã¡ã¼ã« (ã§ããã¡ã¼ã«, denshi mÄru), Eã¡ã¼ã« (Ä« mÄru), ã¤ã¼ã¡ã¼ã« (Ä«mÄru)
Lithuanian: el. paštas
Malay: surat elektronik, surel
Polish: t+|pl|e-mail|lang=Polish|m
Russian: ÑлекÑÑÐ¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑа (elektrónnaja póÄta) f
Spanish correo electrónico m
Swedish: e-post, e-mail#Swedish|e-mail n, email n, e-mejl n, mejl n
trans-bottom
message
See e-mail message
Verb
to e-mail
- To compose and send an e-mail
See also
snail mail
webmail
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