Letter

Noun

 * 1) A symbol in an alphabet, bookstave.
 * There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
 * 1) A written message. See also note.
 * I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.
 * 1) 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) 🇺🇸 A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm)
 * 2)  A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm

Synonyms

 * bookstave

Hyponyms

 * epistle
 * missive

Derived terms

 * accountant's letter
 * advisory letter
 * air 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
 * 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

 * literacy
 * literal


 * literary
 * literate


 * literature

Verb

 * 1)  to print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
 * 2)  🇺🇸 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
letter:, lettre: from letre: from  littera: from  from  διφθέρα:. 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

 * Albanian:
 * Alemannic: Buchstabe
 * Arabic: حرف, حروف
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: lletra
 * Azerbaijani: hərf
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: літара
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 字母
 * Chuvash: саспалли
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: täht, kirjatäht, aabe, pookstav
 * Faroese: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: letra
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: lèt
 * Hebrew: אות (ot)
 * Hindi: अक्षर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kabyle: asekkil
 * Khmer: តួអក្សរ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:


 * Lao:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: lerfu
 * Low Saxon:
 * Lower Sorbian: pismik
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: അക്ഷരം
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi: अक्शर (akshar), अक्षर (akṣra)
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali: (akshyar)
 * Norwegian:
 * Ossetian: дамгъæ
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch:, ,
 * Russian:, литера
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: slovo, bukva (archaic)/(poetic)
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: எழுத்து (ezhuttu)
 * Telugu: అక్షరం (aksharaM)
 * Thai: ตัวอักษร, อักษร, อักขระ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: حرف
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אות (os) or


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: رسالة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: məktub
 * Basque: eskutitz
 * Belarusian: ліст, пісьмо
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: carta
 * Cebuano:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 信, 信件, 書信, 书信
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: წერილი (ts‘erili), ბარათი (barat‘i)
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: מכתב (mikhtav)
 * Hindi: ख़त, पत्र, चिट्टी / चिट्ठी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 手紙
 * Khmer: សំបុត្រ
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: xatra
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi: पत्र (patra)
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: نامه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: chaski qillqa
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: (kakitham)
 * Telugu: ఉత్తరము (uttaramu), జాబు (jaabu)
 * Tetum: karta, surat
 * Thai: จดหมาย
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: خط, پتر
 * Vietnamese: thư
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: בריוו (briv)

Noun

 * 1) letter (letter of the alphabet)

Derived terms

 * letteren (literature)
 * geletterd (literate)
 * letterkunde
 * letterlijk
 * lettertype
 * letterwerk
 * letterwoord
 * letterzetter
 * beginletter
 * drukletter
 * eindletter
 * hoofdletter
 * kenletter
 * tussenletter
 * voorletter

Noun
letter