What does the word letter mean

But in sharply-worded letter written this week, Senate Homeland Security Committee chairs Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) say the “letter of assurance” did no such thing. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Cos I got Jillehpie’s letter fine and Sophiepie’s is lost somewhere. * calls out to letter* meh. * stamps feet* I WANT SOPHS LETTER!! ❋ Fuct-up-girl (2003)

The second letter has a date line, personal signature and initials of dictator and stenographer — little touches that add to the personality of the letter_ ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

_The practical uses of the business letter are almost infinite: selling goods, with distant customers, developing the prestige of the house — there is handling men, adjusting complaints, collecting money, keeping in touch scarcely an activity of modern business that cannot be carried on by letter_ ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

_These by writing the first letter of each word of the compound with a period after each letter_: — ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

He pressed her hand to his forehead, and said: “The letter, Eleanore, the letter  …!” ❋ Jakob Wassermann (1903)

Ruby’s letter ran as follows (we say his _letter_, because the other letter was regarded, comparatively, as nothing): — ❋ Unknown (1859)

To justify and cloak the treachery a letter was written by Carew to the _sugane_ Earl reminding him of _his_ engagement to deliver up O’Conor; this _letter_, as pre-arranged, was intercepted by the latter, who, watching his opportunity, rushed with it open into the Earl’s presence, and arrested him, in the name of O’Neil, as a traitor to the Catholic cause! ❋ Thomas D’Arcy McGee (1846)

Then, the first time the foreach statement runs, it sets the $letter variable equal to the first item in $letterArray ( «a»), and then uses the Write-Host Cmdlet to display the letter a. The next time through the loop, $letter is set to «b», and so on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

*if u r confused by this here letter please note that I prefer to threaten people who I am confused by their letter* ❋ Unknown (2009)

[This letter required so many alterations to bring it up to the ordinary standard of epistolary, grammatical, and orthographical accuracy, that it is thought best to give it in _word_ and _letter_, precisely as it was received at the office.] «EXECUTIVE DEPT. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

This letter to you, in the which he says (_Reading letter_) «You are an enemy to the Seventeen Fires. ❋ Charles Mair (1882)

The term letter carrier is more descriptive because many women hold this job. ❋ PAUL R. MARTIN (2002)

[guy1]:[I should] write a letter to [my grandma].
guy2:Whats a letter ❋ Balinda696969 (2009)

Girlfriend : [Send me a letter]!
Me: wtf no *[slap]*
girlfriend : lets have [the sex] ❋ Atlec (2006)

«[whats] a letter
«bro-» ❋ Mexican.potato (2023)

Guys, I stole a forkliff from [the union], and they give me a letter, but I didnt sign it so I keep the [liff] for my [garage]! ❋ McCartney Farms (2004)

Letters [make up] [words]. ❋ HT (2004)

kid:the [letter] a is [the first] letter in [the alphabet]! ❋ Oof.avi Master (2019)

«I lettered him a [copy] of his [contract]» ❋ Summer Fall (2017)

[i forgot] to pay my [bills]! well… actually i didn’t read [the letters] ❋ A Random Piece Of Cardboard (2020)

“Maria had sex with Matt and Jack since she’s lettering [Delta Theta]”
Brad had sex with Stacy, Karla, and Tiffany so now he’s [lettered] Sigma [Apple Pi] ❋ Greeklyfe (2018)

girl 1: what [size] are your [letters]?
[girl 2]: D
girl 3: I HAVE NO [LETTERS]! ❋ La-sha-sha (2010)

  • Afrikaans: letter (af)
  • Albanian: shkronjë (sq) f
  • Alemannic German: Buchstabe m
  • Amharic: ፊደል (fidäl)
  • Arabic: حَرْف (ar) m (ḥarf)
    Egyptian Arabic: حرف‎ m (ḥarf)
    Gulf Arabic: حرف‎ m (ḥarf)
  • Armenian: տառ (hy) (taṙ), գիր (hy) (gir)
  • Assamese: আখৰ (akhor)
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܬܘܼܬܵܐ(atuta)
  • Asturian: lletra (ast) f
  • Avar: хӏарп (ḥʳarp)
  • Azerbaijani: hərf (az)
  • Bashkir: хәреф (xäref)
  • Basque: letra
  • Belarusian: лі́тара f (lítara)
  • Bengali: অক্ষর (bn) (okkhor), হরফ (bn) (horoph)
  • Breton: lizherenn (br)
  • Bulgarian: бу́ква (bg) f (búkva)
  • Burmese: အက္ခရာ (my) (akhka.ra)
  • Catalan: lletra (ca) f, caràcter (ca) m
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⴽⴽⵉⵍ m (askkil)
  • Central Dusun: pimato
  • Chechen: элп (elp)
  • Chichewa: lemba
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 字母 (zi6 mou5),  (yue) (zi6)
    Dungan: зыму (zɨmu), зы ()
    Mandarin: 字母 (zh) (zìmǔ),  (zh) (), 文字 (zh) (wénzì)
    Min Nan: 字母 (zh-min-nan) (lī-bú / jī-bó / jī-bú),  (zh-min-nan) (lī / jī)
    Wu: 字母 (zr mu), (zr)
  • Chuvash: саспалли (saspalli)
  • Corsican: please add this translation if you can
  • Czech: písmeno (cs) n
  • Dalmatian: latera f
  • Danish: bogstav (da) n or c
  • Dhivehi: އަކުރު(akuru)
  • Dutch: letter (nl) f, karakter (nl) n, letterteken (nl) n, boekstaaf (nl) m
  • Esperanto: litero (eo)
  • Estonian: täht (et), kirjatäht, aabe (et), pookstav
  • Faroese: bókstavur (fo) m, stavur (fo) m
  • Fijian: vola (fj)
  • Finnish: kirjain (fi), aakkonen (fi)
  • French: lettre (fr) f, caractère (fr) m
  • Fula:
    Adlam: 𞤢𞤤𞤳𞤵𞤤𞤢𞤤‎, 𞤸𞤢𞤪𞤬𞤵
    Latin: alkulal, harfu
  • Friulian: letare f, lètare f
  • Galician: letra (gl) f
  • Georgian: ასო (ka) (aso)
  • German: Buchstabe (de) m, Letter (de) f
  • Greek: γράμμα (el) n (grámma)
    Ancient: γράμμα n (grámma)
  • Gujarati: અક્ષર (akṣar), હરફ (gu) (haraph)
  • Haitian Creole: lèt
  • Hawaiian: hua palapala
  • Hebrew: אוֹת (he) f (ot)
  • Hindi: अक्षर (hi) m (akṣar), लिपि (hi) f (lipi), वर्ण (hi) m (varṇ), हरफ़ (hi) m (haraf), हर्फ़ m (harf), हरफ (hi) m (haraph), हर्फ (hi) (harph), आखर (hi) m (ākhar), अखर (hi) m (akhar)
  • Hungarian: betű (hu)
  • Icelandic: bókstafur (is) m, stafur (is) m
  • Ilocano: kurdit
  • Indonesian: huruf (id)
  • Ingrian: bukva, aampuussen, kirjamerkki
  • Interlingua: littera, litera
  • Irish: litir (ga) f
  • Italian: lettera (it) f, carattere (it) m, lettera dell’alfabeto f
  • Japanese: 文字 (ja) (もじ, moji),  (ja) (じ, ji)
  • Javanese: aksara (jv)
  • Kabyle: asekkil
  • Kalmyk: үзг (üzg)
  • Kannada: ಅಕ್ಷರ (kn) (akṣara)
  • Kazakh: әріп (kk) (ärıp)
  • Khmer: តួអក្សរ (tuə ʼaksɑɑ), អក្សរ (km) (ʼaksɑɑ)
  • Korean: 문자(文字) (ko) (munja), 글씨 (ko) (geulssi), 글자 (ko) (geulja)
  • Kumyk: гьарп (harp)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: پیت (ckb) (pît)
  • Kyrgyz: тамга (ky) (tamga), арип (ky) (arip)
  • Lao: ຕົວ (tūa), ຕົວອັກສອນ (tūa ʼak sǭn), ອັກສອນ (ʼak sǭn), ອັກຂະຣະ (ʼak kha ra), ຫນັງສື (nang sư̄), ຕົວຫນັງສື (tūa nang sư̄), ອັກຂະລະ (ʼak kha la)
  • Latgalian: liters m
  • Latin: littera (la)
  • Latvian: burts m
  • Lithuanian: raidė (lt) f
  • Low German: Bookstaav (nds) m, Bookstoov m
  • Luxembourgish: Buschtaf m
  • Lü: ᦟᦲᧅ (liik)
  • Macedonian: буква f (bukva)
  • Malay: huruf (ms)
  • Malayalam: അക്ഷരം (ml) (akṣaraṃ)
  • Maltese: ittra f
  • Manchu: ᡥᡝᡵᡤᡝᠨ (hergen)
  • Marathi: अक्षर (mr) (akṣar)
  • Mauritian Creole: let
  • Mongolian:
    Cyrillic: үсэг (mn) (üseg)
  • Nepali: अक्षर (ne) (akṣar)
  • Ngazidja Comorian: harufu class 9/10
  • Norman: lettre f
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: bokstav (no) m
    Nynorsk: bokstav m
  • Occitan: letra (oc) f, caractèr (oc) m
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    Cyrillic: боукꙑ f (buky), писмѧ n (pismę)
  • Old East Slavic: бꙋкꙑ f (buky), чьрта f (čĭrta)
  • Old English: stæf (ang) m, bōcstæf m
  • Old Javanese: akṣara
  • Old Norse: bókstafr m
  • Oriya: ଲିପି (or) (lipi)
  • Ossetian: дамгъӕ (damǧæ)
  • Ottoman Turkish: حرف(harf)
  • Pali: akkhara
  • Pashto: حرف (ps) m (harf)
  • Persian: حرف (fa) (harf), نویسه (fa) (nevisa), وات (fa) (vât)
  • Piedmontese: litra f
  • Plautdietsch: Büakstow (nds) f
  • Polish: litera (pl) f
  • Portuguese: letra (pt) f
  • Punjabi: ਅੱਖਰ (pa) m (akkhar), ਹਰਫ਼ (haraf)
  • Rajasthani: आखर (ākhar), अच्छर (acchar)
  • Romagnol: lètra f
  • Romanian: literă (ro) f, caracter (ro) n
  • Romansch: letra f, bustab m, custab m
  • Russian: бу́ква (ru) f (búkva), ли́тера (ru) f (lítera) (dated)
  • Sanskrit: वर्ण (sa) m (varṇa), अक्षर (sa) n (akṣara)
  • Sardinian: lítara f, lítera f
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: अक्खर (akkhar)
  • Scottish Gaelic: litir f
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: сло̏во n, (archaic, poetic) бу̏ква f
    Roman: slȍvo (sh) n, (archaic, poetic) bȕkva (sh) f
  • Shan: လိၵ်ႈ (shn) (līk)
  • Sicilian: littra (scn) f, lìttira (scn) f
  • Sindhi: اکر
  • Sinhalese: අකුර (si) (akura)
  • Skolt Sami: bukva, ǩeʹrjj
  • Slovak: písmeno n
  • Slovene: črka (sl) f
  • Somali: xaraf
  • Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: pismik m
  • Spanish: letra (es) f, carácter (es) m
  • Swahili: herufi (sw)
  • Swedish: bokstav (sv) c
  • Tabasaran: гьярф (hjarf)
  • Tagalog: titik (tl), letra
  • Tajik: ҳарф (tg) (harf)
  • Tamil: எழுத்து (ta) (eḻuttu)
  • Tashelhit: ⴰⵙⴽⴽⵉⵍ m (askkil)
  • Tatar: хәреф (tt) (xäref)
  • Telugu: అక్షరము (te) (akṣaramu)
  • Thai: ตัวอักษร (th) (dtuua-àk-sɔ̌ɔn), อักษร (th) (àk-sɔ̌ɔn), อักขระ (th) (àk-kà-rà), ตัวหนังสือ (th) (dtuua-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ), หนังสือ (th) (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ)
  • Tibetan: ཡི་གེ (yi ge)
  • Tigrinya: ፊደል (fidäl)
  • Tok Pisin: leta
  • Turkish: harf (tr)
  • Turkmen: harp
  • Ukrainian: бу́ква (uk) f (búkva), лі́тера (uk) f (lítera)
  • Urdu: حرف‎ m (harf)
  • Uyghur: ھەرپ(herp)
  • Uzbek: harf (uz)
  • Venetian: łétara f, létara f, létera f
  • Vietnamese: chữ cái (vi), kí tự (vi)
  • Vilamovian: büchśtaow
  • Volapük: tonat (vo), tonab (older term)
  • Walloon: lete (wa) f
  • Welsh: llythyren (cy) f
  • Wutunhua: yegai
  • Yagnobi: ҳарф (harf)
  • Yiddish: אות‎ m or n (os), אָס‎ m or n (os), בוכשטאַב‎ m (bukhshtab)
  • Yoruba: lẹ́tà
  • Zazaki: herf (diq)
  • Zhuang: cihmeh

Recent Examples on the Web



This mesmerizingly lackadaisical, gloriously shambolic creation is a love letter to the boredom, part-time employment, and cheap rents that flooded ’90s college towns (and now feels like ancient history).


Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023





Most will be offered employment at the company’s New Braunfels call center or given the opportunity to work from home, the company said in a March 31 letter to the Texas Workforce Commission.


Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Apr. 2023





And the 92 year-old billionaire didn’t pull his punches when discussing critics of the practice in his annual shareholder letter released in February.


Will Daniel, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023





In his letter, Xu launched a blistering attack on Xi’s policies, from the tightening of the Communist Party’s controls on the economy to its suppression of freedoms in Hong Kong and its handling of the initial Covid outbreak in Wuhan.


Nectar Gan, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023





In the federal government’s 2019 letter to the state, the Department of Justice said that building new prisons wouldn’t solve Alabama’s prison crisis.


Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2023





This is a love letter to them.


Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 8 Apr. 2023





Later, in a scathing letter, Demboski accused Bronson and members of his administration of unethical behavior, misconduct and fostering a hostile work environment, among other allegations.


Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023





At Eater, in this love letter to the kooky cookie jar, Angela Burke introduces us to artist and vintage ceramic cookie jar maker Hazy Mae.


Longreads, 7 Apr. 2023




In this image taken from video provided by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, lettering identifying a wrecked ship as the Selden E. Marvin is seen in Lake Superior in August 2022.


CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023





The results can be startling, as when the artist produces a sort of board game in which such conspiracy-buff tropes as crop circles, crisis actors and Pizzagate are lettered around a core filled with churning internal organs.


Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023





This means providing babies and toddlers with specific kinds of attention that develop their brains and instill skills that are crucial for growing into fluent readers, from oral language and familiarity with print to letter knowledge and speech-sound awareness.


Time, 15 Sep. 2022





These included stunning shots of Rihanna dancing around a bonfire, letter her hair fly in the beach breeze, and singing toward the waters.


Rosa Sanchez, Harper’s BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2022





Coronado Unified redacted all summaries of student interviews from the report for privacy and safety reasons, the district said, even though Sobel had already changed students’ and parents’ names to letter identifiers to mask their identities.


Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021





Napier went on to letter four seasons at Furman and was the starting quarterback from 2001-02.


Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2021





Michigan and Northwestern decided to create the George Jewett Trophy in honor of George Jewett II, the first Black football player to letter at both institutions.


Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2021





One of the three — a local schoolteacher — was kind, didn’t smoke cigarettes and even sent a thank-you letter the following day.


oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2020



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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Letter, letters, or literature may refer to:

Characters typeface[edit]

  • Letter (alphabet), a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet.
  • Letterform, the graphic form of a letter of the alphabet, either as written or in a particular type font.
  • Rehearsal letter in an orchestral score

Communication[edit]

  • Letter (message), a form of written communication
    • Mail
  • Letters, the collected correspondence of a writer or historically significant person
    • Maktubat (disambiguation), the Arabic word for collected letters
    • Pauline epistles, addressed by St. Paul to various communities or congregations, such as «Letters to the Galatians» or «Letters to the Corinthians», and part of the canonical books of the Bible
  • The letter as a form of second-person literature; see Epistle
    • Epistulae (Pliny)
    • Epistolary novel, a long-form fiction composed of letters (epistles)
  • Open letter, a public letter as distinguished from private correspondence
  • Letter to the editor, a letter sent to a newspaper, magazine, or online publication by one of its readers and meant to be published
  • Encyclical letter in the Catholic Church
  • Letter (paper size), paper conventionally sized for letter-writing

Education[edit]

  • Letters, an obsolete synecdoche for literacy; e.g. «He knows his letters»
  • Literature as in Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Varsity letter, an award given in the U.S. for interscholastic or intercollegiate merit in a sport or other activity such as band or orchestra

Music[edit]

  • Letters (Butch Walker album), 2004
  • Letters (Jimmy Webb album), 1972
  • Letters (Matt Cardle album), 2011
  • Letters (Bish album), 2020
  • «Letters» (song), by Utada Hikaru, 2002

Places[edit]

  • Letters, Ross-shire, a small village on the coast of Loch Broom, Scotland
  • Letter railway station in Germany
  • Letter, a townland in Kilcar, County Donegal, Ireland

People[edit]

  • Douglas Letter, American lawyer and general counsel
  • Stephan Letter (born 1978), German serial killer

Other uses[edit]

  • LETTERS, an 1979 novel by John Barth
  • John Letters, a Scottish manufacturer of golf clubs
  • Letters (sculpture), a 1915 work by Charles Keck

See also[edit]

  • The Letter (disambiguation)
  • Letterer, a member of a team of comic book creators responsible for drawing the comic book’s text
  • Letterman (disambiguation)
  • Lettering, and calligraphy

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noun

a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.

a symbol or character that is conventionally used in writing and printing to represent a speech sound and that is part of an alphabet.

a piece of printing type bearing such a symbol or character.

a particular style of type.

such types collectively.

Often letters . a formal document granting a right or privilege.

actual terms or wording; literal meaning, as distinct from implied meaning or intent (opposed to spirit): the letter of the law.

letters, (used with a singular or plural verb)

  1. literature in general.
  2. the profession of literature.
  3. learning; knowledge, especially of literature.

an emblem consisting of the initial or monogram of a school, awarded to a student for extracurricular activity, especially in athletics.

verb (used with object)

to mark or write with letters; inscribe: I picked up the crossword and lettered in P-E-A-R-L for the final clue.

verb (used without object)

to earn a letter in an interscholastic or intercollegiate activity, especially a sport: He lettered in track at Harvard.

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Idioms about letter

    to the letter, to the last particular; precisely: His orders were carried out to the letter.

Origin of letter

1

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English, variant of lettre, from Old French, from Latin littera “alphabetic character”; in plural, “epistle, literature”

synonym study for letter

OTHER WORDS FROM letter

let·ter·er, nounlet·ter·less, adjective

Words nearby letter

let someone, let someone down, let someone have it, Lett, letted, letter, letter bomb, letterbox, letterboxing, letter-card, letter carrier

Other definitions for letter (2 of 2)


noun Chiefly British.

a person who lets, especially one who rents out property.

Origin of letter

2

First recorded in 1550–60; let1 + -er1

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Words related to letter

sign, answer, memo, memorandum, message, note, postcard, reply, report, alphabet, cap, capital, character, majuscule, minuscule, rune, type, uncial, acknowledgment, billet

How to use letter in a sentence

  • She did urge the county to take out SDSU students from the statistics, and they’re going to send a letter to the state asking that the SDSU numbers not be included in the calculation of the county’s tier status.

  • I could name many of them who, for example, organized and signed a letter of support for me in 1991.

  • That’s why Ivan tells Selin that his love for her is “for the person writing your letters.”

  • Let’s get to the letter of the law, as Apple is a stickler for precision when it comes to these rules.

  • Obviously, thankfully, that letter never needed to be opened, but I wrote that letter that tells your loved ones what you want them to know.

  • In memoriam, Parker Molloy writes a powerful letter to Leelah.

  • Your letter highlights so many of the harsh realities trans people face, specifically in regard to how society rejects us.

  • Just a few short years ago, I sat down at my computer, and I typed out a similar goodbye letter.

  • Copies of the letter were sent to senior members of the church hierarchy and to the Soviet government.

  • I have never gotten one letter in my office about one of those.

  • He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.

  • Hoosier hurried on board the boat, and followed Dick’s instructions to the letter.

  • A letter from Fajardo to the king (December 10, 1621) concerns various matters of administration and business.

  • How little did he divine that the letter of the doctor was called forth by a communication from the countess-dowager.

  • With this letter is another by the same writer, dated July 30, 1622—a postscript to a duplicate of the preceding letter.

British Dictionary definitions for letter


noun

any of a set of conventional symbols used in writing or printing a language, each symbol being associated with a group of phonetic values in the language; character of the alphabet

a written or printed communication addressed to a person, company, etc, usually sent by post in an envelopeRelated adjective: epistolary

the letter the strict legalistic or pedantic interpretation of the meaning of an agreement, document, etc; exact wording as distinct from actual intention (esp in the phrase the letter of the law)Compare spirit 1 (def. 10)

printing archaic a style of typefacea fancy letter

to the letter

  1. following the literal interpretation or wording exactly
  2. attending to every detail

verb

to write or mark letters on (a sign, etc), esp by hand

(tr) to set down or print using letters

Derived forms of letter

letterer, noun

Word Origin for letter

C13: from Old French lettre, from Latin littera letter of the alphabet

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Other Idioms and Phrases with letter


In addition to the idiom beginning with letter

  • letter of the law

also see:

  • bread and butter letter
  • crank call (letter)
  • dead letter
  • four-letter word
  • poison-pen letter
  • red-letter day
  • to the letter

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

I [‘letə]
1. сущ.

1) буква

block letter — прописная печатная буква

capital letter, large letter, upper-case letter — прописная (заглавная, большая) буква

lower-case letter, small letter — маленькая, строчная буква

3) буквальное значение, буква, прямой и строгий смысл

the letter of the law — буква закона

in letter and in spirit — по форме и по существу

to the letter — буквально; точно

4)

амер.

нагрудный знак в виде первой буквы названия колледжа или университета

He had earned his high-school letter in four sports. — Он получил награду в университете по четырём видам спорта.

5) письмо, послание; документ

to drop a letter into a mailbox амер. / letterbox брит. — бросить письмо в почтовый ящик

to get / receive a letter — получить письмо

to register / certify a letter — зарегистрировать письмо

to mail / send / forward / брит. post a letter — отправить, послать письмо

to take (down) / transcribe a letter — записать письмо

to type a letter — напечатать письмо

to deliver a letter — доставить письмо

to write a letter — написать письмо

anonymous letter — анонимное письмо

open letter — открытое письмо

dead letter — письмо, не востребованное адресатом или не доставленное ему

Your letter of the 15th May has come to hand. — Ваше письмо от 15 мая получено нами.

brief letter — короткое письмо

business letter — деловое письмо

detailed letter — подробное письмо

fan letter — письмо поклонника

love letter — любовное послание

night letter — амер. телеграмма по ночному тарифу

personal letter — письмо личного характера

rambling letter — бессвязное письмо


— chain letter
— covering letter
— documentary letter of credit
— express letter
— follow-up letter
— form letter
— letter of advice
— letter of attorney
— letter of credit
— letter of guarantee
— letter of instruction
— letters of administration
— letter of indemnity
— letters of recall
— registered letter
— certified letter
— special-delivery letter

Syn:

6) литература

man of letters — писатель

the profession of letters — профессия писателя

Syn:

7) образованность, учёность, эрудиция

Syn:

2. гл.

1) помечать буквами

2) надписывать чертёж

3) вытиснять буквы, заглавие

4) обозначать имя, название

Every boat shall be lettered and numbered in some conspicuous manner. — На каждой лодке должны быть чётко написаны название и номер.

5) писать письма; разносить письма

6) выигрывать спортивную награду

II [‘letə]
сущ.

лицо, сдающее внаём, в прокат; арендодатель

Англо-русский современный словарь.
2014.

types:

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ascender

a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters

descender

a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters

digram, digraph

two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh’ in `shoe’)

initial

the first letter of a word (especially a person’s name)

A, a

the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet

B, b

the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet

C, c

the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet

D, d

the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet

E, e

the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet

F, f

the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet

G, g

the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet

H, h

the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet

I, i

the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet

J, j

the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet

K, k

the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet

L, l

the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet

M, m

the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet

N, n

the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet

O, o

the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet

P, p

the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet

Q, q

the 17th letter of the Roman alphabet

R, r

the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet

S, s

the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet

T, t

the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet

U, u

the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet

V, v

the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet

W, double-u, w

the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet

X, ex, x

the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet

Y, wye, y

the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet

Z, ezed, izzard, z, zed, zee

the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet

alpha

the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet

beta

the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet

gamma

the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet

delta

the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet

epsilon

the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet

zeta

the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet

eta

the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet

theta

the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet

iota

the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

kappa

the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet

lambda

the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet

mu

the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet

nu

the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet

xi

the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet

omicron

the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet

pi

the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet

rho

the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet

sigma

the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet

tau

the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet

upsilon

the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet

phi

the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet

chi, khi

the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet

psi

the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet

omega

the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet

aleph

the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

beth

the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

gimel

the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

daleth

the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

he

the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

waw

the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

zayin

the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

heth

the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

teth

the 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

yodh

the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

kaph

the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

lamedh

the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

mem

the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

nun

the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

samekh

the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

ayin

the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

pe

the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

sadhe

the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

qoph

the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

resh

the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

sin

the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

shin

the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

taw

the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

polyphone, polyphonic letter

a letter that has two or more pronunciations

block capital, block letter

a plain hand-drawn letter

vowel

a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel

consonant

a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant

vowel point

a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel

letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speechletter — the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; «his grandmother taught him his letters»

spelling — forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage

alphabet — a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language

grapheme, graphic symbol, character — a written symbol that is used to represent speech; «the Greek alphabet has 24 characters»

ascender — a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters

descender — a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters

digram, digraph — two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh’ in `shoe’)

initial — the first letter of a word (especially a person’s name); «he refused to put the initials FRS after his name»

a — the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet

b — the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet

c — the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet

d — the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet

e — the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet

f — the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet

g — the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet

h — the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet

i — the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet

j — the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet

k — the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet

l — the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet

m — the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet

n — the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet

o — the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet

p — the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet

q — the 17th letter of the Roman alphabet

r — the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet

s — the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet

t — the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet

u — the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet

v — the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet

double-u, w — the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet

x, ex — the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet

wye, y — the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet

ezed, izzard, zed, zee, z — the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; «the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee»; «he doesn’t know A from izzard»

alpha — the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet

beta — the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet

gamma — the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet

delta — the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet

epsilon — the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet

zeta — the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet

eta — the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet

theta — the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet

iota — the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

kappa — the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet

lambda — the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet

mu — the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet

nu — the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet

xi — the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet

omicron — the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet

pi — the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet

rho — the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet

sigma — the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet

tau — the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet

upsilon — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet

phi — the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet

khi, chi — the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet

psi — the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet

omega — the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet

aleph — the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

beth — the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

gimel — the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

daleth — the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

he — the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

waw — the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

zayin — the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

heth — the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

teth — the 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

yodh — the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

kaph — the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

lamedh — the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

mem — the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

nun — the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

samekh — the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

ayin — the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

pe — the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

sadhe — the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

qoph — the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

What does Letter Mean?

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
  • a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
  • the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
  • a written message addressed to a person or organization
  • an award earned by participation in a school sport
Definition as Verb
  • win an athletic letter
  • set down or print with letters
  • mark letters on or mark with letters

Examples

  • «he followed instructions to the letter«; «he obeyed the letter of the law»
  • «his grandmother taught him his letters»
  • «mailed an indignant letter to the editor»
  • «he won letters in three sports»

Part of Speech

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