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fan mail

noun

  1. fan letters collectively.


fan mail

noun

  1. mail sent to a famous person, such as a pop musician or film star, by admirers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fan mail1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

As the intern, one of my jobs was to sort all the fan mail and read it.

From Time

In another black-and-white shot, they are boyishly sprawled on the rose-printed carpet of their suite, reading piles of fan mail.

Although he first appeared as a cheating villain, he began appearing in a series of animations answering viewer fan mail.

He was shocked, he says, when he discovered that 10 was the median age of those writing him fan mail.

Baby, however, was still available for new pictures, and in a few days a girl had to be hired to take care of his fan mail.

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