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# mailbox

«mailbox» in Mova's school dictionary: **a box outside a house where letters are delivered, or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mailbox, mailboxes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (US, Canada) A mailbox is a box outside a house where letters are delivered, or a public box where you post letters (UK: postbox, letterbox). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/#m1)

2) An email inbox, the place on a computer where your emails arrive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and computers. Phrases: «check the mailbox», «put the letter in the mailbox», «my email mailbox is full». Safety: be careful with emails from strangers in your mailbox.

### examples

- I checked the mailbox for my birthday card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/#x1)
- Put the letter in the mailbox on the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/#x2)
- My email mailbox was full of spam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/#x3)
- The mailbox had a little red flag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/#x4)
- Our mailbox is at the end of the drive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/#x5)
- The postman left a parcel by the mailbox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/#x6)

### note

Plural: mailboxes. US/Canada «mailbox»; UK/Ireland/Australia «letterbox» (on a house) and «postbox» (public). One word.

### In the corpora

- [Everyone looks forward to it, nobody gets upset, and Grandpa wins every year with a rubber snake in the mailbox.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mailbox» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mailbox/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.