diff --git a/types/email-check/email-check-tests.ts b/types/email-check/email-check-tests.ts
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+import emailCheck = require('email-check');
+
+const checkWithoutOptions: Promise<boolean> = emailCheck('recipient@email.com');
+
+const options: emailCheck.EmailCheckOptions = { from: 'sender@email.com', host: 'email.com', timeout: 10000 };
+const checkWithOptions: Promise<boolean> = emailCheck('recipient@email.com', options);
+
+const partialOptions: emailCheck.EmailCheckOptions = { from: 'sender@email.com' };
+const checkWithPartialOptions: Promise<boolean> = emailCheck('recipient@email.com', partialOptions);
diff --git a/types/email-check/index.d.ts b/types/email-check/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for email-check 1.1
+// Project: https://github.com/pensierinmusica/email-check
+// Definitions by: Luke Jones <https://github.com/luke-j>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+declare namespace emailCheck {
+    interface EmailCheckOptions {
+        from?: string;
+        host?: string;
+        timeout?: number;
+    }
+}
+
+declare function emailCheck(email: string, options?: emailCheck.EmailCheckOptions): Promise<boolean>;
+
+export = emailCheck;
diff --git a/types/email-check/tsconfig.json b/types/email-check/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "email-check-tests.ts"
+    ],
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/email-check/tslint.json b/types/email-check/tslint.json
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+{
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
+}