A string of characters which identifies a location on the Internet or other network to which an email can be sent; this information considered as a point of contact for a particular individual, organization, etc.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in Usenet (newsgroups).
Definition of email address in US English:
email address
noun
A string of characters which identifies a location on the Internet or other network to which an email can be sent; this information considered as a point of contact for a particular individual, organization, etc.