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Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

text message (plural text messages)

A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.
Synonym: text
- 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:
  After the kitten had died, Robins sent a text message to Knutton saying: "Remember the saying: 'What goes around comes around?' It has started already to bite you in the arse. The cat? Karma."
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 405, number 8813, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 December 2017, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
  A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[3], archived from the original on 10 February 2026, page 10:
  Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

Derived terms

Translations

a brief electronic message — see also text

Afrikaans: SMS (af), SMS-boodskap, selfoonboodskap
Arabic: رِسَالَة f (risāla), رِسَالَة إِس إِم إِس f (risālat ʔes ʔem ʔes), مِيسِيج m (mīsij)
Catalan: missatge de text m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 短訊 / 短讯 (dyun² seon³) (Hong Kong)

Mandarin: 短信 (zh) (duǎnxìn)
Czech: textovka, esemeska (cs)
Danish: sms (da) c, SMS (da) c, sms-besked c, SMS-besked c
Dutch: sms (nl) m, sms-bericht (nl) n
Finnish: tekstiviesti (fi)
French: texto (fr) m, SMS (fr) m
Georgian: ტექსტური შეტყობინება (ṭeksṭuri šeṭq̇obineba), ესემესი (esemesi), SMS-შეტყობინება (SMS-šeṭq̇obineba), ესემეს-შეტყობინება (esemes-šeṭq̇obineba), სმს-შეტყობინება (sms-šeṭq̇obineba)
German: Textnachricht (de) f, SMS (de) f or n
Hebrew: מִסְרוֹן (he) m (misrón)
Hungarian: SMS (hu)
Japanese: 伝言 (ja) (でんごん, dengon), メール (ja) (mēru), テキストメッセージ (tekisuto messēji)
Korean: 문자 메시지 (munja mesiji), 문자 (ko) (munja)
Māori: karere-ā-waea, karere kuputuhi, kuputuhi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tekstmelding (no) m or f

Nynorsk: tekstmelding f
Persian: پیامک (fa) (payâmak)
Polish: esemes (pl) m, SMS (pl) m
Portuguese: mensagem de texto f, SMS (pt) m
Russian: сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije), ме́сседж (ru) m (méssedž), эс-эм-э́с m (es-em-és), эсэмэ́ска (ru) f (esɛmɛ́ska)
Spanish: mensaje de texto m, mensaje textual m
Swahili: ujumbe mfupi (sw)
Swedish: sms (sv) n, mess (sv) n, textmeddelande (sv) n
Vietnamese: tin nhắn văn bản, nhắn tin (vi)
Volapük: vödanunil

Verb

text message (third-person singular simple present text messages, present participle text messaging, simple past and past participle text messaged)

(transitive or intransitive) To transmit a text message.
I told him to text message you when he's finished.

Please text message the directions to me.

Synonyms

text
message
SMS (outside the US/UK)

Translations

to transmit a text message — see also send,‎ text,‎ message

Afrikaans: SMS (af)
Danish: sms'e, SMS'e
Dutch: sms'en (nl)
Finnish: tekstata (fi), tekstailla (fi), lähettää tekstiviesti, lähetellä tekstiviestejä
German: simsen (de) (informal)
Hindi: तेक्स्ट करने (teksṭ karne)
Hungarian: (object: information) elküld SMS-ben, (object: person) SMS-t küld, (intransitive) SMS-ezik
Polish: esemesować (pl)
Russian: эсэмэсить (ru) impf (esɛmɛsitʹ)
Spanish: mensajear textualmente
Swedish: sms:a (sv)

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