1 (also formal electronic mail) [U] a way of sending messages and data to other people by means of computers connected together in a NETWORK:
to send a message by e-mail
2 [C,U] a message sent by e-mail
verb ~ sth (to sb) to send a message to sb by e-mail:
[VN] Patrick e-mailed me yesterday. * [VN, VNN] I'll e-mail the documents to her. * I'll e-mail her the documents.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for e-mail is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is e-mail a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, e-mail is tagged as noun.
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