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English
Etymology
From electronic + mail.
Pronunciation
IPA: /�i�meɪl/
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 �email� 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
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Chinese: é�»å�é�µä»¶, ç�µå�é�®ä»¶ (dià n zÇ� yóu jià n)
Esperanto: retpo�to
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: ηλεκÏ�Ï�ονικÏ� Ï�αÏ�Ï�δÏ�ομείο (ilektronikó taçiðromÃo) n, e-mail#Greek|e-mail (iméjl) n
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Hebrew: ×�×�×�ר ×�×�ק×�ר×�× ×� (do'ar elektroni)
Icelandic: tölvupóstur m, netpóstur m, e-mail n
Japanese: é�»å�ã�¡ã�¼ã�« (ã�§ã��ã��ã�¡ã�¼ã�«, denshi mÄ�ru), Eã�¡ã�¼ã�« (Ä« mÄ�ru), ã�¤ã�¼ã�¡ã�¼ã�« (Ä«mÄ�ru)
Lithuanian: el. paštas
Malay: surat elektronik, surel
Polish: t+|pl|e-mail|lang=Polish|m
Russian: �лек��онна� по��а (elektrónnaja pó�ta) 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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