voice mail

1. 1.

   a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed

   Synonymsvoicemail

   Broadertelephone

Questions about voice mail

What does voice mail mean?

voice mail means "a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed".

What is another word for voice mail?

Close synonyms include voicemail. 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.

Is voice mail a common word?

voice 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.