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Meaning of "fan mail" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FAN MAIL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FAN MAIL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fan mail is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FAN MAIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fan mail

Fan mail is mail sent to a public figure, especially a celebrity, by their admirers or "fans". In return celebrities may send a poster or picture and usually a return letter.

Definition of fan mail in the English dictionary

The definition of fan mail in the dictionary is mail sent to a famous person, such as a pop musician or film star, by admirers.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FAN MAIL

fan
fan base
fan belt
fan club
fan dance
fan heater
fan letters
fan oven
fan palm
fan tracery
fan vaulting
fan worm
fan-assisted oven
fan-shaped
fan-tailed
fan-tan
Fanagalo
Fanakalo
fanal
fanatic

WORDS THAT END LIKE FAN MAIL

airmail
blackmail
certified mail
chain mail
coat of mail
direct mail
e-mail
electronic mail
express mail
hate mail
junk mail
mail
metered mail
nixie mail
remail
snail mail
snail-mail
surface mail
voice mail
webmail

Synonyms and antonyms of fan mail in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fan mail» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FAN MAIL

Find out the translation of fan mail to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fan mail from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fan mail» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

粉丝的邮件
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cartas de admirador
570 millions of speakers

English

fan mail
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रशंसक मेल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بريد المعجبين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вентилятор почты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cartas de fãs
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভক্তের বার্তা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

courrier de fans
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kipas peminat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fanpost
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ファンレター
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

팬 메일
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penggemar email
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

fan hâm mộ tử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரசிகர் அஞ்சல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फॅन मेल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayran mektubu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ventola posta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wentylator Email
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вентилятор пошти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fan -mail
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταχυδρομείου ανεμιστήρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fan mail
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

beundrarbrev
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fanpost
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fan mail

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FAN MAIL»

The term «fan mail» is regularly used and occupies the 63.524 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FAN MAIL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fan mail» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fan mail» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fan mail

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10 QUOTES WITH «FAN MAIL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fan mail.
1
Keegan Allen
I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.
2
Ben Barnes
Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
3
Jason Bateman
I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.
4
Nuno Bettencourt
Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?
5
Lara Flynn Boyle
I love receiving fan mail.
6
Alexander Calder
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
7
John Denver
I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
8
Trevor Donovan
The emails and the tweets and the Facebook posts and the fan mail that we get from young people all over America that are on the football team or on the hockey team are so touching. They tell me, 'Hey, this is me. I still have to remain in the closet, but your role in '90210' makes me feel better the way being gay is being portrayed.'
9
Julian Glover
Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.
10
Davey Havok
The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAN MAIL»

Discover the use of fan mail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fan mail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fan Mail
In a thriller narrated entirely through e-mail, letters, faxes, messages, memos, and transcripts, beautiful newscaster Joan Carpenter is stalked by "The Watcher," a twisted psychopath with an ardent obsession for her. Reprint.
Ronald Munson, 1994
2
Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail
This book collects hundreds of those envelopes, as well as a selection of letters, all presented in thematic chapters.
Paul Grushkin, 2011
3
Fan Mail
Getting into a killer's mind is both a blessing and a curse for FBI profiler Sophie Anderson.
P.D. Martin, 2012
4
Fan Mail
While shooting a horror film, of which she is the star, young actress Christina becomes the target of a crazed stalker who threatens to kill her. Original.
Nicole Davidson, 1993
5
Fan Mail: Twenty Years of Writing About Soccer (an eBook ...
Fortunately for those who love great writing about soccer, all these fugitive pieces are collected in Fan Mail.
Nick Hornby, 2013
6
Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American ...
56 The fan mail for Meet John Doe exhibits the same kind of commitment, but beyond this, and beyond the conviction that the cinema should address significant issues, the letters show no necessary formal orideological consistencyandrange ...
Eric Smoodin, 2004
7
Business Communication: Process and Product
Customer letters typically fall into three categories: (a) “fan” mail, (b) information requests, and (c) claims. Fan mail contains praise and testimonials: “Tried the new Cherry Garcia Frozen Yogurt and . . . I want to go to Vermont and shake your  ...
Mary Ellen Guffey, 2007
8
Tumblr For Dummies
To send an appreciative Fan Mail message to a blog you admire, follow these steps: 1. Access the Send Fan Mail page from any of the following locations, as shown in Figure 7-9: • Inbox: Click the blue Send Fan Mail button that displays on  ...
Sue Jenkins, 2012
9
The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public
... in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 64–91. 25. Lumley, Measurement in Radio, 48; Jack Benny, “Gags Have Grown Up,” TI, April 1945, 11; “Fan Mail Complaints, Week of  ...
Elena Razlogova, 2011
10
Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction ...
Although it was not a criterion for their inclusion, all the texts examined in Dear Appalachia were in print in 2010, attesting to their continued circulation and lasting influence. Evidence of Reception Fan Mail Modern use of the term fan dates to ...
Emily Satterwhite, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAN MAIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fan mail is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Running with the Boys
Jordan soon returned, as we know, but Beyer, then Sebrina Brewster, was just as thrilled, helping answer fan mail, coordinating local events ... «Bulls.com, Jul 15»
2
Oakland Raiders star quarterback Kenny Stabler dies at 69 …
... relaxes in the training room in Oakland, Calif., and reads his fan mail. Stabler, who led the Raiders to a Super Bowl victory and was the NFL's ... «WKBN.com, Jul 15»
3
YRC's Welch: 6 tips on leadership
“You can imagine the fan mail I get on a daily basis from 33,000 employees. Some of it is not fun,” Welch said. “You just can't get down in the ... «Kansas City Business Journal, Jul 15»
4
Wesley Snipes: Life Is Good
He continues to receive bags of fan mail from every part of the globe. “People seem to enjoy the stories,” he offered. “And that's why I enjoy ... «LA Canyon News, Jul 15»
5
Mozarks Moments: 'The girl with the million dollar legs'
Fan mail poured in. Twentieth-Century Fox went so far as to have her legs insured for $1 million from Lloyds of London. She continued to star in ... «Bolivar Herald-Free Press, Jul 15»
6
Meet the 360-Lb. Hungarian Singer Hoping to Become the Next …
After releasing her single and music video, Snowflake said she did receive some strange fan mail. "Lots of marriage proposals, some weirdos ... «People Magazine, Jul 15»
7
Jake Miller wipes his heart off his sleeve
This is after all, a guy whose first song that garnered major radio play (“A Million Lives”) is constructed of lyrics lifted straight from his fan mail, about how his ... «Metro.us, Jul 15»
8
Amanda Peterson's Mom Counters Mug Shots With Fond Memories …
I know it brightened her day when she got all the emails and fan mail from everybody. Really any time that we were together she was a ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
9
This is What Happened When an Australian City Gave Trees Email …
Milman writes that instead of damage reports, people began to write fan mail to trees, complimenting their looks and leaves and telling tales of ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»
10
Inside Amanda Peterson's Final Photo Shoot: 'She Had the Greatest …
I know it brightened her day when she got all the emails and fan mail from everybody," he tells PEOPLE. "Really any time that we were together ... «People Magazine, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Fan mail [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/fan-mail>. May 2024 ».
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