Mail Definition

māl
mailed, mailing, mails
noun
mails
A bag or piece of baggage.
Webster's New World
Postal material for a specific person or organization.
Could you pick up my mail at the office?
American Heritage
A bag or packet of letters, etc. to be transported by post.
Webster's New World
The system of collection, transportation, and delivery of letters, packages, etc.; postal system.
Webster's New World
Letters, papers, packages, etc. handled, transported, and delivered by the post office or other delivery service.
Webster's New World
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verb
mailed, mailing, mails
To send by mail, as by putting into a mailbox; post.
Webster's New World
To cover or protect with or as with mail.
Webster's New World
To send letters and other material by a postal system.
American Heritage

To pinion.

Wiktionary
adjective
Of mail.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mail

Noun

Singular:
mail
Plural:
mails

Origin of Mail

  • From Anglo-Norman male, meole et al., Old French male (“bag, wallet"), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch"), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch"). Compare Dutch maal.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English maille (“mail armor"), from Old French maille (“loop, stich"), from Latin macula (“blemish, mesh"), probably from Proto-Indo-European *smh₁-tlehâ‚‚, from *smeh₁- (“smear, rub").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English mal, male from Old English māl (“speech, contract, agreement") from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit"). Akin to Old English mæl (“mÇ£l").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French maile from Latin macula blemish, mesh

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English male bag from Old French of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English mol, maile from Old Norse māl lawsuit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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