MAILER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mailer mean? 

• MAILER (noun)
  The noun MAILER has 4 senses:

1. United States writer (born in 1923)

2. a person who mails something

3. an advertisement that is sent by mail

4. a container for something to be mailed

  Familiarity information: MAILER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAILER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer (born in 1923)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mailer; Norman Mailer

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who mails something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

mail (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)

mail (send via the postal service)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An advertisement that is sent by mail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

ad; advert; advertisement; advertising; advertizement; advertizing (a public promotion of some product or service)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A container for something to be mailed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mailer"):

airmailer (a mailer for airmail)