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voicemail

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United States

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

noun

  1. 1

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

    Near-synonyms: voice mailbox, voicemailbox

  2. 2

    An individual message on such a system.

Etymology

From voice + mail, genericized trademark.

verb

  1. 1

    To leave a message on voicemail.

Forms

plural
voicemails
past tense
voicemailed
past participle
voicemailed
present participle
voicemailing
third person singular
voicemails
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).