Letters and packages that are sent to people through the post.
Letters, packages, and other items sent or delivered through a postal system.
Messages you send or get on a computer or phone using the internet.
Electronic messages, especially email, sent or received over the internet.
To send something to someone using the post.
To send letters, packages, or other items via a postal or courier service.
Clothing made from many small metal rings, worn long ago to protect the body in battle.
A type of armor consisting of small metal rings linked together in a mesh, used historically for protection in combat.
- Base: mail
- Plural: mails
- Base: mail
- 3rd Person Singular: mails
- Present Participle: mailing
- Past: mailed
by return of post/mail
3reply by next post delivery
To send an answer quickly, using the next post service available.
- Please send us your decision by return of mail.
- They confirmed the booking by return of post.
chain mail
2armor made of linked rings
Armor made from many small metal rings joined together.
- The museum has an impressive display of chain mail.
- Chain mail was commonly worn by medieval soldiers.
mail order
1buying goods for postal delivery
A way to buy things by sending an order and getting them delivered by post.
- She bought the dress through a mail order catalog.
- Mail order was popular before online shopping became widespread.
junk mail
1unwanted advertising mail or email
Mail or email that you do not want, usually ads sent to many people.
- I get so much junk mail in my inbox every day.
- I throw most of my junk mail straight into the recycling bin.
- Most of the letters we received this week were just junk mail.
- Check your spam and junk mail folders if you don’t see the confirmation message.
- They complained about the amount of junk mail coming through their door.