instant message
an electronic message sent in real time via the internet and therefore immediately available for display on the recipient's screen.: Compare text message.
to send such an electronic message. Abbreviation: IM: Compare text (def. 16).
Origin of instant message
1word story For instant message
Words Nearby instant message
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use instant message in a sentence
And we would instant message each other and have a conversation about our days.
But because that was the 19th century, kids only instant message.
A woman, home alone at night, receives an instant message from a mysterious stranger who claims to know her.
Several years ago, a congressional probe unearthed a classic instant message exchange between S&P employees.
And Samaritans recently launched IM Hear, a service in which trained teens instant-message with struggling peers.
Reddit Enlists 10,000 Volunteers to Prevent Suicides … They Hope | Jesse Singal | March 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for instant message
a message sent using instant-messaging technology
to send an instant message (to)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse