mail 1 (m āl)
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n.1. a. Materials, such as letters and packages, handled in a postal system: The volume of mail increases around the holidays. b. Postal material for a specific person or organization: Could you pick up my mail at the office? c. Material processed for distribution from a post office at a specified time: delivered the morning mail around town. 2. A postal system. Used with the, sometimes in the plural: used the mail to send the supplies; advertisements sent through the mails. 3. Chiefly British A vehicle by which mail is transported. 4. Mail or messages sent electronically; email. v. mailed, mail·ing, mails v.tr. To send by a postal system: mailed the letter yesterday. v.intr. To send letters and other material by a postal system.
[Middle English male, bag, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]
maila·ble adj. |