Dictionary

e-message en · NOUN

Etymology

From e- + message.

Meanings

1. A message sent by computer.
   • Online activities include getting and sending e-messages and photos, using Facebook, sharing artwork or music, building Web sites, or Internet gaming. 2012, Judy Monroe Peterson, How to Beat Cyberbullying, page 7:
   • Through your computer you can send messages or files. Obviously, it also works the other way round when you are the receiver of an e-message. 2014, Robin Anderson, Practical business skills, page 82:
   • In this chapter, I have used data taken from my own e-messages, supplemented by examples taken from messages sent to a younger generation, kindly supplied by my 23-year-old son and 26-year-old daughter. The desirability of a corpus of e-mail data is stressed by Johansson, and also Yates. 2001, David Crystal, Language and the Internet, page 94:

Forms

Translations (7)

de elektronische Nachricht (message sent by computer) · de elektronische Mitteilung (message sent by computer) · fi sähköinen sanoma (message sent by computer) · sv e-meddelande (message sent by computer) · cmn 電子訊息 /电子讯息 (message sent by computer) · fi sähköinen viesti (message sent by computer) · mk е-порака (message sent by computer)