voice mail

See also: voicemail

English

Alternative forms

voicemail

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 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

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