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e-mail en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of email.
    alt of email
    • She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman. 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 57:
    • I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to. 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 262:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
e-mails Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

e-mail address · e-mail list

e-mail en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of email.
    alt of email
    • In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat. 2009 August 5, Matt Richtel, “Federal Agency Plans Distracted Driving Forum”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
e-mailed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
e-mailed Tense=Past lexicographic
e-mails Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
e-mailing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

e-mailable