electronic mail

Questions about electronic mail

What does electronic mail mean?

electronic mail means "(computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in".

What is another word for electronic mail?

Close synonyms include e-mail, email. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of electronic mail?

The recorded antonyms are snail mail.

Is electronic mail a common word?

electronic mail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.