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See also:Mailandmàil

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishmale, fromAnglo-Normanmale,Old Frenchmale(“bag, wallet”), fromFrankish*malha(“bag”), fromProto-Germanic*malhō(“bag, pouch”), fromProto-Indo-European*molko-(“leather pouch”). CompareDutchmaal.

Noun

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mail (countable anduncountable,pluralmails)

  1. (now regional) Abag orwallet.[from 13thc.]
    • 1499,John Skelton,The Bowge of Courte:
      What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thymale!
    • c.1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act I, scene ii:
      Open theMales, yet guard the treaſure ſure.
      Lay out our golden wedges to the view,
      That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.
  2. Abag containingletters to be delivered by post.
  4. The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.[from 17thc.]
    Synonym:snail mail
    Antonyms:email,mail
    Meronym:mailpiece
    Don't forget to pick up themail on your way.
    1. (chiefly US, uncountable) Theletters,parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.[from 19thc.]
      It should be in yourmail today, unless the post office lost it!
  5. (dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
    • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page263:
      All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by themails.
    • 1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, inModern Railways, pages422, 425:
      On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m.mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].
    • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL, number948, page42:
      As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's themail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
  7. The postal service or system in general.[from 17thc.]
    Synonym:(UK, Ireland)post
    He decided to send his declaration bymail.
  9. (uncountable)Electronic mail,e-mail: acomputernetwork–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.[from 20thc.]
    Synonym:email
    YahooMail has been providing mail service since 1997.
  11. (uncountable)Emailmessages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense ofphysical mail).
    Synonym:email
    You've gotmail [old audio clip announcing new email in the 1990s-2000s]
  13. (countable, especially India) Anemailmessage.
    Synonym:email
    Please look through thosemails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling.
  14. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
Usage notes
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In the United States,the mails (withthe and in the plural) can mean "the postal system".

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Translations
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postal delivery system
organisation
parcels and letters
electronic mail
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Verb

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mail (third-person singular simple presentmails,present participlemailing,simple past and past participlemailed)

  2. (ditransitive) Tosend (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
  3. (ditransitive) Tosend byelectronic mail.
    Pleasemail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.
    • 1983, Donn Seeley, “Source for 'Grab'”, innet.unix-wizards (Usenet):
      There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt tomail the file to ARPA sites.
    • 1998, Michael Tomsett, “Re: Multiple postings?”, inalt.music.manics (Usenet):
      Since .mp3's are so big (well for me with a 33.6kp/s connection they are anyway) maybe you should offer on your site tomail the file to people who want it, and have them request it, thus saving your web space, your upload time and their download time[…]
    • 2003, Chrissy, “Re: Send mail with attachment”, inmicrosoft.public.excel.programming (Usenet):
      If youmail an attachment from one mail client then it does not matter if the receiver uses a different mail client. The mail you send should be able to be read from their mail client.
  4. (transitive) To contact (a person) byelectronic mail.
    I need tomail my tutor about the deadline.
    • 2000, Carlton Alton Deltree, “Whoever did this sucks...”, inalt.comp.virus (Usenet):
      I was horrified but my data was OK. Then, it saw it open my e-mail package and start tomail my friends. I turned the power off.
    • 2002, Jessica Mann,The voice from the grave,page189:
      'Yes, at Quantico. She was so excited by it, she sent all those emails, you remember I told you about it -' 'Yes, shemailed me from there too.'
    • 2011, Rose Budworth-Levine,Intimate Encounters,page41:
      Hemailed me and said he had managed to hack into my email accounts.
Synonyms
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  • (send through the mail):post
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Translations
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to send via the post

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishmayle(“mail armor”), borrowed fromOld Frenchmaille(“loop, stitch”), fromVulgar Latin*macla, fromLatinmacula(“blemish, mesh”), probably fromProto-Indo-European*smh₁-tleh₂, from*smeh₁-(“smear, rub”). Comparemaillot.

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Noun

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mail (usuallyuncountable,pluralmails)

Mail.
  2. (uncountable, history)Armour consisting of metalrings linked together.
    • 1853,John Ruskin, “Roman Renaissance”, inThe Stones of Venice, volume III (The Fall), London:Smith, Elder, and Co., […],→OCLC, § LVII,page73:
      The knight is laid in hismail, only the hands and face being bare.
    • 1956, C. S. Lewis,The Last Battle:
      "That's funny lookingmail, Sire," said Eustace.
      "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that.[…]
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, inThe Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page23:
      Under the sea-girt cliffs the shining ship was readied, laden with coats ofmail, swords, and gleaming war harness.
  3. (uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy)Armour consisting of smallplates linked together.
  4. (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
  5. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
  6. (obsolete, rare) Aspot on a bird'sfeather; by extension, aspottedfeather.
Usage notes
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  • Mail for a type of armour is in specialist academic usage now restricted to armour made up of interlocking rings, where its use for scale armour, lamellar armour or brigandine is considered antiquarian.
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Translations
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armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together

Verb

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mail (third-person singular simple presentmails,present participlemailing,simple past and past participlemailed)

  1. (transitive) Toarm with mail.
  2. (transitive) Topinion.

Etymology 3

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FromMiddle Englishmal,male fromOld Englishmāl(“speech, contract, agreement”) fromOld Norsemál(“agreement, speech, lawsuit”). Akin toOld Englishmǣl(“speech”). Related toOld Englishmǣlan (mell),maþelian(“to speak out, declare”). From*maþlą(“meeting-place”), possibly fromProto-Indo-European*meh₂d-(“to encounter, come”), if so, related tomeet, andmoot.

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Noun

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mail (pluralmails)

  1. (historical) An oldFrenchcoin worth half adenier.
  2. (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
  3. (chiefly Scotland)Rent.
  4. (chiefly Scotland)Tax.
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Dalmatian

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Etymology

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FromLatinmilium.

Noun

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mail m

  1. millet
  2. birdseed

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishemail.

Noun

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mail

  1. email

Declension

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Declension ofmail
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativemailmailenmailsmailsene
genitivemailsmailensmails'mailsenes

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Shortened frome-mail.

Noun

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mail m (pluralmails,diminutivemailtje n)

  1. (nonstandard)alternative form ofe-mail

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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mail

  1. inflection ofmailen:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

Emilian

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mail f pl

  1. plural ofmaila

Estonian

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Noun

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mail

  1. adessiveplural ofmaa

Fiji Hindi

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishmile(“imperial measure of distance”).

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Noun

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mail

  1. mile

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French

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromLatinmalleus(“hammer”).

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Noun

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mail m (pluralmails)

  1. maul
  2. (sports, historical)pall mallmallet
  3. (by extension)pall mall
  4. mall,promenade
  5. (Quebec)mall,shopping mall
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromEnglishemail.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mail m (pluralmails)

  1. (informal)email
    Synonyms:courriel,mél

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German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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mail

  1. singularimperative ofmailen
  2. (colloquial)first-personsingularpresent ofmailen

Gothic

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Romanization

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mail

  1. romanization of𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻

Italian

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Etymology

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Clipping ofe-mail.

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Noun

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mail f (invariable)

  1. (colloquial)email
    Synonym:posta elettronica
    • 2016 December 29, Paolo Lepri, “Obama Putin (e non solo) la scelta di un finale in attacco”, inCorriere della Sera‎[1], retrieved10 November 2020:
      […] una democrazia che Trump (ricordiamoci le accuse di «falsificazione» delle elezioni, la strumentalizzazione della vicenda dellemail di Hillary, l’uso senza scrupoli della «post-verità») deve assolutamente imparare a rispettare pienamente.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^e-mail,mailing inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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  • mail in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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mail

  1. alternative form ofmayle

Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishmail.

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Noun

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mail m inan

  1. alternative spelling ofmejl

Declension

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Declension ofmail
singularplural
nominativemailmaile
genitivemailamaili/mailów
dativemailowimailom
accusativemailmaile
instrumentalmailemmailami
locativemailumailach
vocativemailumaile

Derived terms

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adjective
verb

Related terms

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adverb
noun

Further reading

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  • mail inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mail in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romansch

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Etymology

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FromLate Latinmēlum, fromLatinmālum. CompareFriulianmêl,Romanianmăr.

Noun

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mail m (pluralmails)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader)apple

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Spanish

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Noun

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mail m (pluralmailes)

  1. email
    Synonyms:correo,correo electrónico,email

Swedish

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Noun

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mail n

  1. alternative spelling ofmejl

Declension

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Declension ofmail
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitemailmails
definitemailetmailets
pluralindefinitemailmails
definitemailenmailens

Anagrams

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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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FromEnglishmile.

Noun

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mail

  1. mile
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