English
Etymology
voice + mail, genericized trademark.
Noun
voice mail (countable and uncountable, plural voice mails)
- (uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
- Synonym: voice mailbox
- (countable, by extension) An individual message on such a system.
- Synonym: voice message
Translations
system
- Armenian: ձայնային փոստ (jaynayin pʻost)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 語音信箱／语音信箱 (zh) (yǔyīn xìnxiāng), 语音信箱 (zh) (yǔyīn xìnxiāng), 話音郵件／话音邮件 (huàyīn yóujiàn), 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
- Hungarian: hangposta
- (deprecated template usage)
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- 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
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