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Mailbox   Listen
noun
mailbox  n.  
1.
A public box for deposit of mail, where it is later picked up by the postal authority for delivery.
Synonyms: postbox, letter box.
2.
A private box to recieve delivery of mail. The term is used both for boxes receiving mail delivered by the public postal authority, or by a private services, such as for mail to employees in large corporations.
Synonyms: letter box.
3.
(Computers) A location within a computer storage device where electronic mail is held until it is retrieved by the addressee. Creation and use of an electronic mailbox requires special software as well as a data storage device.





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"Mailbox" Quotes from Famous Books



... and frillily-capped, came out of the watched house. She bore some eight or nine letters in one hand, and fanned herself with them in a leisurely flat-footed progress to the mailbox at ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell
... you mean the mailbox!" Whedbee walked across the street to the square green box with the rounded metal top. Another of the globes had been attached to the mailbox, and the legs had been burned loose from the concrete sidewalk. Confidently, ...
— Stopover Planet • Robert E. Gilbert


Words linked to "Mailbox" :   maildrop, box, letter box


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