mail

Pronunciation

• (UK) (US) (Canada) enPR: māl, IPA ^(key): /meɪl/ or [meɪ̯ɫ]

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: male

Noun

Singular mail

Plural none

1. (uncountable) Mail is the messages and packages that you send to other people.

   There's no mail today because the post office is closed.

   The new book arrived in the mail.

2. Email.

Verb

Plain form mail

Third-person singular mails

Past tense mailed

Past participle mailed

Present participle mailing

1. (transitive) If you mail something, you send it through the post.

   I mailed a birthday card to him last week.