chain letter

English

Noun

chain letter (plural chain letters)

1. A letter that can be mailed successively to different recipients, with each recipient ostensibly (but sometimes sarcastically) being instructed in the body of the letter to mail the letter to another person or persons.

Translations

a letter that is mailed successively to different recipients

• Danish: kædebrev
• Dutch: kettingbrief (nl) m
• Finnish: ketjukirje (fi)
• German: Kettenbrief (de) m
• Hebrew: מִכְתָּב שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת (he) m pl (mikhtáv sharshéret)
• Italian: catena di sant'antonio f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjedebrev (no) n

  Nynorsk: kjedebrev n

• Polish: łańcuszek (pl) m
• Russian: письмо́ счастья (pisʹmó sčastʹja) ("happiness/luck letter")
• Swedish: kedjebrev (sv) n

See also

• chain mail
• spam

Anagrams

• interthecal, threnetical