Kilo Lingo

/meɪl/

Line drawing of mail
Coloured illustration of mail
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Translation

Letters and parcels that people send to each other. British English usually says "post" for the same thing.

Word origin

From Old French male, a bag for travelling. Letters were carried from town to town in such a bag.

Origin
Old French
Root
male

Examples

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"Mail" means all the letters and parcels together.

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Here "mail" is the letters that arrived for one person.

Britain , America .

The two words mean the same thing.

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This word is part of lesson 36.