Mail

/meɪl/ · noun

Meaning

(now regional) A bag or wallet..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now regional) A bag or wallet.
2. A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
3. The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
4. (dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
5. The postal service or system in general.
6. (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
7. (uncountable) Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
8. (countable, especially India) An email message.

Example Sentences

What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male!

Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.

Meronym: mailpiece

Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.

1823, The stranger in Liverpool; or, An historical and descriptive view of the town of Liverpool and its environs, Seventh Edition, T. Kaye, page 96, The following are the hours at which the letter-box of this office is closed for making up the several mails, and the hours at which each mail is despatched: ¶ […]

1887, John Houston Merrill (editor), The American and English Encyclopædia of Law, Volume I, Edward Thompson, p.121, If he retains the account, and permits several mails to pass without objecting to it, he will be held to have admitted its correctness.

The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.

All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails.

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Word Forms

• mails
• mailing
• mailed
• maille
• maile
• maill

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