Letter

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English

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letters (1)
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a letter (2)

Noun

Letter (plural Letters)
  1. A symbol in an alphabet, bookstave.
    There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
  2. A written message. See also note.
    I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.
  3. Literal meaning.
    "Some MEPs from some countries may have pocketed £2m more than I have by observing the letter but not the spirit of the rules." - [1]
  4. (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)
  5. (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm
  6. (US, scholastic) Short for varsity letter.

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Synonyms

  • (written character/alphabetic symbol) bookstave

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Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun letter

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to letter

Verb

Letter (third-person singular simple present Letters, present participle Lettering, simple past and past participle Lettered)

  1. (transitive) to print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
  2. (intransitive) (US, scholastic) To earn a varsity letter (award).

Adjectives for Letter

rare; deprecatory; terrible; much-discussed; anonymous; unfeeling; complimentary; entertaining; amusing; exhaustive; innumerable; confidential; charming; loathsome; vitriolic; insolent; threatening; overbearing; pensive; seditious; amiable; commendatory; pitiful; subjoined; promised; obliging; impassioned; strange; incoherent; obscure; incomprehensible; bulky; pattern; simple-minded; subsequent; obnoxious; elementary; discursive; nonsensical dead; unfriendly; repentant; passionate adulatory; indiscreet; ill-spelled; runic; affectionate; shameful; orderly; menacing; luminous; feigned; curt; immediate; interminable; pithy; gilt; full; convincing esteemed; accusing; interesting; specific deep-cut; reprehensive; pastoral; brief terse; condensed; emphatic; exculpatory beautiful; eloquent; touching; conspicuous good; unjust; delicious; sweet; patient wise; tender; painful; abusive; round-robin; often-recurring; chance-preserved introductory; burning; generous; handsome mystical; explanatory; racy; exquisite slanderous; ill-written; libelous; crafty brusque; unsound; stilted; pleading; naive denunciatory; easy-flowing; inevitable long; reproachful; sparkling; enigmatical depressing; assisting; condemnatory; faded fatal; clandestine; ridiculous; agreeable hasty; impudent; enthusiastic; unauthentic-ated; taunting; dedicatory; chatty; kind-hearted; cheery; journalistic; happy; timely; conclusive; effective; admonitory; indignant; spiteful; pathetic; dainty; memorable; sad; begging; witty; misguiding; resounding; fascinating; inquisitive; occasional; compromising; laconic; needless; unfinished; genuine; obedient.

Verbs for Letter

append to—; bear—; besiege with—s; born- bard with—s; censor—; communicate by—; convey—; deluge with—s; devise—; devour —; dictate—; frame—; peruse—; post—; scribble—; seal—; skim through—; speed—; suppress—; welcome—; —acquaints; —assures; —breathes; —cheers; —commends; —commissions; —consoles; —conveys; — expatiates; —gushes; —imparts; —links; ——s pour in; —reveals; —unites.

Thesaurus

PP, RD, RFD, accurately, acknowledgment, advice, airmail, alphabet, alphabetize, answer, art, article, ascender, autograph, back, bastard type, beard, belles-lettres, belly, bevel, billet, black letter, blueprint, body, book post, brainchild, business letter, cap, capital, capitalize, case, character, charactering, characterization, chart, chit, choreography, communication, communique, composition, computer printout, conventional representation, copy, correspondence, counter, culture, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, descender, diagram, direct mail, direct-mail selling, dispatch, document, draft, drama, drawing, edited version, em, embassy, en, engrossment, epistle, erudition, essay, exactly, exemplification, express, face, fair copy, fat-faced type, favor, feet, fiction, figuration, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, font, fourth-class mail, frank, groove, halfpenny post, hieroglyphic, holograph, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, initial, inscribe, italic, junk mail, learning, letter post, letters, ligature, limning, line, literae scriptae, literally, literary artefact, literary production, literatim, literature, logogram, logograph, logotype, lower case, lucubration, mail, mail-order selling, mailing list, majuscule, manuscript, map, mark, matter, memorandum, message, minuscule, missive, musical notation, newspaper post, nick, nonfiction, notation, note, opus, original, paper, parcel post, parchment, penscript, pi, pica, pictogram, picturization, piece, piece of writing, plan, play, pneumatogram, poem, point, portraiture, portrayal, post, post day, precisely, prefigurement, presentment, print, printed matter, printing, printout, production, projection, reading matter, realization, recension, registered mail, release, rendering, rendition, reply, report, representation, rescript, roman, rural delivery, rural free delivery, sans serif, schema, scholarship, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, sea mail, seapost, second draft, shank, shoulder, sic, sign, small cap, small capital, special delivery, special handling, spell out, stamp, stem, strictly, surface mail, syllabary, symbol, tablature, telegram, the written word, thus, to the letter, transcribe, transcript, transcription, transliterate, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, typescript, upper case, verbatim, version, word, word for word, work, write, writing

Etymology

Middle English letter, lettre from Old French letre from Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”) from Etruscan from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphtherā). 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".

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Noun

letter of the alphabet
written message

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Dutch

Noun

Letter f. (plural letters or letteren, diminutive lettertje, diminutive plural lettertjes)

  1. letter (letter of the alphabet)

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Swedish

Noun

letter

  1. indefinite plural of lett
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