diff --git a/Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst b/Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst
index 6f8e489a7328e6..efc58b31518f93 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.compat32-message.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ having a MIME type such as :mimetype:`multipart/\*` or
 :mimetype:`message/rfc822`.
 
 The conceptual model provided by a :class:`Message` object is that of an
-ordered dictionary of headers with additional methods for accessing both
+ordered mapping of headers with additional methods for accessing both
 specialized information from the headers, for accessing the payload, for
 generating a serialized version of the message, and for recursively walking
 over the object tree.  Note that duplicate headers are supported but special
diff --git a/Doc/library/email.message.rst b/Doc/library/email.message.rst
index 261d0d62cfe618..a7ebda1a7657b5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.message.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.message.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ latter type of payload is indicated by the message having a MIME type such as
 :mimetype:`multipart/\*` or :mimetype:`message/rfc822`.
 
 The conceptual model provided by an :class:`EmailMessage` object is that of an
-ordered dictionary of headers coupled with a *payload* that represents the
+ordered mapping of headers coupled with a *payload* that represents the
 :rfc:`5322` body of the message, which might be a list of sub-``EmailMessage``
 objects.  In addition to the normal dictionary methods for accessing the header
 names and values, there are methods for accessing specialized information from