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Antonyms for mail

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : meyl
Phonetic Transcription : meɪl


Definition of mail

Origin :
  • "post, letters," c.1200, "a traveling bag," from Old French male "wallet, bag, bundle," from Frankish *malha or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *malho- (cf. Old High German malaha "wallet, bag," Middle Dutch male "bag"), from PIE *molko- "skin, bag." Sense extension to "letters and parcels" (18c.) is via "bag full of letter" (1650s) or "person or vehicle who carries postal matter" (1650s). In 19c. England, mail was letters going abroad, while home dispatches were post. Sense of "personal batch of letters" is from 1844, originally American English.
  • noun written correspondence; system for sending correspondence
  • verb send through the postal system
Example sentences :
  • The mail, at this epoch, was very different from what it is at present.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • I will go down by the mail train to-night; I cannot rest until he is found.
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • Cadge fancies, I suppose, that by any mail I may get a big check from home.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • I, who wear no armor, will go as far as any one with breastplate of mail.
  • Extract from : « Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II » by Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • He wrote a reply early in the afternoon, and insisted on going to mail it himself.
  • Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • The mail service of Central Africa is slow but very certain.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • Then he sought to loosen the rings that held the coat of mail.
  • Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin
  • So I told him I'd jist writ a letter home, and I wuz a tryin' to mail it.
  • Extract from : « Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories » by Cal Stewart
  • Wland (gen. Wlandes, 455), the maker of Bewulf's coat of mail, 455.
  • Extract from : « Beowulf » by Unknown
  • Then they took up the box between them, and sallied out to meet the mail.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

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