AIRMAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does airmail mean? 

• AIRMAIL (noun)
  The noun AIRMAIL has 2 senses:

1. letters and packages that are transported by aircraft

2. a system of conveying mail by aircraft

  Familiarity information: AIRMAIL used as a noun is rare.

• AIRMAIL (verb)
  The verb AIRMAIL has 1 sense:

1. send or transport by airmail

  Familiarity information: AIRMAIL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRMAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Letters and packages that are transported by aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("airmail" is a kind of...):

mail (the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A system of conveying mail by aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

airmail; airpost

Hypernyms ("airmail" is a kind of...):

mail; mail service; post; postal service (the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office)

Derivation:

airmail (send or transport by airmail)

• AIRMAIL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they airmail    ... he / she / it airmails   
Past simple: airmailed   
Past participle: airmailed   
-ing form: airmailing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send or transport by airmail

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Letters to Europe from the U.S. are best airmailed

Hypernyms (to "airmail" is one way to...):

mail; post; send (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

They airmail the parcel to their parents
They airmail them the parcel

Derivation:

airmail (a system of conveying mail by aircraft)

airmailer (a mailer for airmail)