/meɪl/
#1770 of 5,000 Core 5000
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
.
"Mail" means all the letters and parcels together.
.
Here "mail" is the letters that arrived for one person.
Britain , America .
The two words mean the same thing.
Used in
Stories
(1)Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 36.