letter
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) МФА(key): /ˈlɛtə(ɹ)/
Audio (RP) (file)
- (General American) МФА(key): /ˈlɛtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
Audio (GA) (file)
- (General Australian) МФА(key): /ˈletə(ɹ)/, /-ɾə(ɹ)/
- Риме: -ɛtə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: let‧ter
Etymology 1
From Middle English letter, lettre, from Old French letre, from Латински littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”), from Etruscan, from Антички Грчки διφθέρᾱ (διφθέρᾱ, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English bōcstæf (bōcstæf, literally “book staff”) in sense 1 and ǣrendġewrit (ǣrendġewrit, literally “message writing”) in sense 2. Дублети of diphtheria.
Alternative forms
- lettre (obsolete)
Noun
letter (transliteration needed)
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
- Шаблон:RQ:KJV
- 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.
- 1692, William Walsh, “Preface”, in Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant:
- The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and natural.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
- He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- 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 (the spirit).
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living:
- We must observe the letter of the law, without doing violence to the reason of the law and the intention of the lawgiver.
- Шаблон:RQ:Tennyson Princess
- 2009 фебруар 23, “Euro MP expenses 'can reach £1m'”, in BBC[2]:
- Some MEPs from some countries may have pocketed £2m more than I have by observing the letter but not the spirit of the rules.
- (plural) Literature.
- Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled – a scientist, politician and a man of letters.
- (law) A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
- Letter (b) constitutes an exception to this provision.
- (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) Clipping of varsity letter.
- (printing, dated) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
- 1644 фебруар 8, John Evelyn, Diary:
- Under these buildings […] was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- accountant's letter
- advisory letter
- air letter
- begging letter
- black letter
- capital letter
- chain letter
- comfort letter
- commercial letter of credit
- covering letter
- cover letter
- crank 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
- green-ink letter
- guarantee letter
- investment letter
- irrevocable letter of credit
- letter blindness
- letter bomb
- letter bond
- letter box
- letter carrier
- letter case
- letterform
- letterhead
- letterman
- 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 of wishes
- letter opener
- letter paper
- letter perfect, letter-perfect
- letter-quality
- letter security
- letter stock
- letter telegram
- letterure
- letter writer
- love letter
- market letter
- news letter, news-letter, newsletter
- night letter
- night letter
- no-action letter
- open letter
- poison-pen letter
- red letter
- scarlet letter
- sea letter
- small letter
- swash letter
- to the letter
- transmittal letter
- varsity letter
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
letter (transliteration needed)
- (transitive) To print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
- (intransitive, US, scholastic) To earn a varsity letter (award).
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English letere, equivalent to Африканс.
Alternative forms
Noun
letter (transliteration needed)
- One who lets, or lets out.
- the letter of a room
- a blood-letter
- (archaic) One who retards or hinders.
Derived terms
Translations
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Further reading
letter на Википедији.Википедији
letter (disambiguation) на Википедији.Википедији
- letter in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- letter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Холандски letter, from Middle Dutch lettere, from Old French lettre, from Латински littera.
Pronunciation
Noun
- letter (letter of the alphabet)
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lettere, from Old French lettre, from Латински littera.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Африкански: letter
- Negerhollands: letter
- → Caribbean Javanese: lèter
- → Indonesian: leter
- Lua грешка in Модул:languages at line 1018: attempt to index a nil value.
- → Papiamentu: lèter, lèterchi, letter
- → Saramaccan: letè
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Verb
- present tense of lette
Etymology 2
Noun
- неодређеног вида множине of lett Шаблон:nb-fcon
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
- неодређеног вида множине of lett Шаблон:nn-fcon
Swedish
Noun
letter (transliteration needed)
- indefinite plural of lett
- Енглески говор
- Енглески 2-syllable words
- Енглески terms with IPA pronunciation
- Енглески појмови са аудио везама
- Риме:Енглески/ɛtə(ɹ)
- Риме:Енглески/ɛtə(ɹ)/2 слогова
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Middle English
- Енглески појмови изведени из Middle English
- Енглески појмови изведени из Old French
- Енглески појмови изведени из Латински
- Енглески појмови изведени из Etruscan
- Енглески појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Енглески дублети
- Енглески именице
- Requests for transliteration of Енглески terms
- Енглески terms with usage examples
- Енглески термини са наводима
- en:Law
- Енглески uncountable nouns
- Енглески clippings
- Језички код недостаје/deftempboiler
- en:Printing
- Енглески dated terms
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/aii
- Terms with redundant transliterations
- Terms with redundant transliterations/yue
- Terms with redundant transliterations/cmn
- Mandarin redlinks
- Mandarin redlinks/т+
- Захтеви за преводе у Corsican
- Дански redlinks
- Дански redlinks/т+
- Фински redlinks
- Фински redlinks/т+
- Италијански redlinks
- Италијански redlinks/т+
- Old English redlinks
- Old English redlinks/т+
- Португалски redlinks
- Португалски redlinks/т+
- Руски redlinks
- Руски redlinks/т+
- Шпански redlinks
- Шпански redlinks/т+
- Telugu redlinks
- Telugu redlinks/т+
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/yi
- Min Nan redlinks
- Min Nan redlinks/т+
- Енглески глаголи
- Енглески transitive verbs
- Енглески intransitive verbs
- Енглески terms with archaic senses
- en:Textual division
- en:Orthography
- en:Post
- Африкански изрази наслеђени од Холандски
- Африкански појмови изведени из Холандски
- Африкански изрази наслеђени од Middle Dutch
- Африкански појмови изведени из Middle Dutch
- Африкански појмови изведени из Old French
- Африкански појмови изведени из Латински
- Африкански terms with IPA pronunciation
- Холандски изрази наслеђени од Middle Dutch
- Холандски појмови изведени из Middle Dutch
- Холандски појмови изведени из Old French
- Холандски појмови изведени из Латински
- Холандски terms with IPA pronunciation
- Холандски појмови са аудио везама
- Риме:Холандски/ɛtər
- Риме:Холандски/ɛtər/2 слогова
- Холандски terms with obsolete senses
- Шведски non-lemma forms
- Шведски noun forms
- Requests for transliteration of Шведски terms
- Swedish noun forms