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See also: Letter
English
Pronunciation
Handwritten cursive letters (sense 1) of the English alphabet, together with some punctuation marks and numbers
A letter (sense 2) written by German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1716
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|lang=parameter) Hyphenation: let‧ter
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English letter, lettre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French letre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Etruscan, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “tablet”). Displaced native Middle English bocstaf, bookstave (“letter, alphabetic symbol”) (from Old English bōcstæf (“alphabetic symbol, written character”)), Middle English bocrune, bocroune (“letter, written character”) (from Old English bōc (“book”) + rūn (“letter, rune”)), Middle English writrune, writroune (“letter, document”) (from Old English writ (“letter, epistle”) + rūn (“letter, rune”)), Old English ǣrendbōc (“letter, message”), Old English ǣrendġewrit (“letter, written message”).
Noun
letter (plural letters)
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
- Bible, Luke xxiii. 38
- And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew.
- A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.
- I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.
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- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (often contrasted with the spirit).
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- (plural) Literature.
- Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled - a scientist, politician and a man of letters.
- (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm).
- (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
- (US, scholastic) (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Clipping of varsity letter. - (printing, dated) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
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Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun letter
- accountant's letter
- advisory letter
- air letter
- begging letter
- black letter
- capital letter
- chain letter
- comfort letter
- commercial letter of credit
- cover letter
- covering letter
- crank letter
- day letter
- dead letter office
- Dear John letter
- deficiency letter
- domincal letter
- drop letter
- encyclical letter
- fan letter
- form letter
- four-letter/four-letter word
- French letter
- guarantee letter
- investment letter
- irrevocable letter of credit
- letter blindness
- letter bomb
- letter bond
- letter box
- letter carrier
- letter case
- letter missive
- letter of administration
- letter of attorney
- letter of comfort
- letter of comment
- letter of credence
- letter of credit
- letter of guarantee
- letter of indemnity
- letter of intent
- Letter of Jeremiah
- letter of marque
- letter of motivation
- letter of the law
- letter opener
- letter paper
- letter perfect/letter-perfect
- letter-quality
- letter security
- letter stock
- letter telegram
- letter writer
- letterform
- letterhead
- letterman
- letterure
- love letter
- market letter
- news letter/news-letter/newsletter
- night letter
- no-action letter
- open letter
- night letter
- poison-pen letter
- red letter
- scarlet letter
- sea letter
- small letter
- swash letter
- to the letter
- transmittal letter
- varsity letter
Related terms
Terms etymologically related to letter
Translations
letter of the alphabet
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written message
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Verb
letter (third-person singular simple present letters, present participle lettering, simple past and past participle lettered)
- (transitive) To print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
- (intransitive, US, scholastic) To earn a varsity letter (award).
Etymology 2
Noun
letter (plural letters)
- One who lets, or lets out.
- the letter of a room
- a blood-letter
- (archaic) One who retards or hinders.
Statistics
Further reading
letter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - letter (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “letter”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “letter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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Noun
letter f (plural letters or letteren, diminutive lettertje n)
- letter (letter of the alphabet)
Derived terms
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Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
letter
Swedish
Noun
letter
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- Rhymes:English/ɛtə
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- Rhymes:English/ɛtə(ɹ)
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Etruscan
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- English terms with usage examples
- American English
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- English dated terms
- Lao terms with redundant script codes
- English verbs
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- English terms interfixed with -t-
- English terms suffixed with -er
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- Dutch nouns
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- Dutch feminine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
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- Swedish non-lemma forms
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