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Meaning of email | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Standard
ˈiːmeɪl

Definitions

  1. Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).
    obsolete, rare
  2. alternative form of Emaille
  3. mail
  4. A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
    uncountable
  5. The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
    uncountable
  6. alternative spelling of E-Mail
  7. post office
  8. A message being sent through email.
    countable
  9. enamel
  10. An email address.
    countable, informal

Equivalents

Azərbaycanca e-poçt elektron poçt
Čeština e-mail email
Dansk e-brev
Deutsch E-Mail E-Mail-Adresse Mail mailen
Eesti meil
Gaeilge ríomhphost
Gàidhlig post-dealain
हिन्दी ई-मेल ईमेल
Bahasa Indonesia email pos-el surel
ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಿಂಚೆ
Kurdî e-mail email
ລາວ ອີແມລ
Latviešu e-pasts
Bahasa Melayu e-mel mel elektronik
မြန်မာဘာသာ အီးမေးလ်
Tagalog sulatroniko

Examples

“He sent me his details via email.”
“The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.”
“Please stop sending me “constructive criticisms” via email, or telling me that “ I feel you are being defensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.”
“I am searching through my old email.”
“My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!”
“He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.”
“I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.”
“What’s your email?”
“In this system, your username is your email.”
“Don’t send personal messages to my work email.”
“Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!”
“It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to red emayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.”
“Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a Brown Email, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-Red Email.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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