Send
verbTo cause a person, message, or object to go to a destination.
How to spell send
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce send
What does send mean?
- verbTo cause a person, message, or object to go to a destination.
Send in a sentence
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Please send the report to the finance team before noon.
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The office will send the parcel by overnight courier tomorrow.
Where does send come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word send descends from the Old English sendan, which meant 'to cause to go, to dispatch, or to throw'. This in turn came from a reconstructed Germanic root sandijan, related to a noun meaning 'a way or a journey', so the original idea was literally to make something travel along a path. The same family produced the German senden and the Dutch zenden, all carrying the same sense of dispatching a person, message, or object. Send has stayed a common, everyday verb in English for well over a thousand years, and its short, regular spelling has barely changed. Because it is so familiar and phonetically straightforward, it almost never causes spelling trouble.
How the word is built
- send (whole Old English root: to cause to go); no prefix or suffix
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