email

1. 1.

   communicate electronically on the computer

   “she e-mailed me the good news”

   Synonymse-mailnetmail

   Broadertelecommunicate

   Narrowerspam

   computer science

Other forms of email

plural

emails·

past tense

emailed·

present participle

emailing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about email

What does email mean?

email 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in email?

email has 2 syllables: e-mail. The stress falls on "mail". In IPA it is /iˈmeɪl/.

What is another word for email?

Close synonyms include electronic mail, e-mail, e-mail, netmail. 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 email?

The recorded antonyms are snail mail.

Is email a common word?

email is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with email?

7 words rhyme with email. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.