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e-mail

  • /ˈiːmeɪl/

Rhymes with -iːmeɪl

noun e-mails

  1. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of email I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.

verb e-mails · e-mailing · e-mailed

  1. alternative Alternative form of email In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat.

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@misc{e_mail_2026,
  title = {e-mail},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/e-mail},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}