e-mail

British  

/ ˈiːmeɪl /

noun

1. short for electronic mail

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verb

1. to contact (a person) by electronic mail

2. to send (a message, document, etc) by electronic mail

e-mail Scientific  

/ ē′māl′ /

1. A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network. E-mail is asynchronous and does not require the receiver of the message to be online at the time the message is sent or received. E-mail also allows a user to distribute messages to large numbers of recipients instantaneously.

2. A message or messages sent or received by such a system.

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e-mail Cultural  

1. E-mail has become one of the most widely used aspects of the Internet, because it provides a means of mass communication to almost anywhere in the world at high speed.

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The proliferation of spam and the transmission of computer viruses through e-mail attachments are two of the more problematic aspects of this technology.

Other Word Forms

• e-mailer
  noun

Example Sentences

The DUP even made it the subject of its weekly e-mail to members, headlined: "Never afraid to speak up and speak out."

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

Updates to the file were then made over the phone, and not discussed via e-mail, according to Higgins.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

Even my MP e-mail gets 1000 emails a day.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

A church spokeswoman did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

“These people by and large did not know anything about how to do the trade and expected Goldman to help them replicate it,” Burry wrote in an e-mail to his CFO.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis