voice mail

voice mail

See also: voicemail

English

Alternative forms

• voicemail

Etymology

voice +‎ mail, genericized trademark.

Noun

voice mail (countable and uncountable, plural voice mails)

1. (uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.

   Synonym: voice mailbox

2. (countable, by extension) An individual message on such a system.

   Synonym: voice message

Translations

system

Armenian: ձայնային փոստ (jaynayin pʿost) Chinese: Mandarin: 語音信箱 (zh), 语音信箱 (zh) (yǔyīn xìnxiāng), 話音郵件, 话音邮件 (huàyīn yóujiàn) Finnish: puheposti French: boîte vocale (fr) f, messagerie vocale (fr) f, répondeur (fr) m German: Voicemail f, Anrufbeantworter (de) m Italian: voicemail m, messaggeria vocale f

Japanese: ボイスメール (boisumēru), ヴォイスメール (voisumēru), 留守番電話 (ja) (るすばんでんわ, rusuban denwa), 留守電 (ja) (るすでん, rusuden) Macedonian: говорна пошта f pl (govorna pošta) Portuguese: correio de voz m, voice mail m Romanian: voicemail n, mesagerie vocală f Russian: голосова́я по́чта (ru) f (golosovája póčta), автоотве́тчик (ru) m (avtootvétčik), войс-ме́йл m (vojs-mɛ́jl), во́йс-мейл m (vójs-mɛjl) Spanish: buzón de voz m Swedish: röstbrevlåda (sv) c

message left on a voice mail system — see voice message

Further reading

• voicemail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia