letters
UK/ˈlɛtəz//ˈlɛtɚz/
letters is the plural of letter.
letters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of letter.
Noun
letters
- Literature (school subject).
- Rickert was the first woman (and second individual) to be awarded a Ph.D. in English letters and philology with that academic honor at the University of Chicago.
- The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).
- Though architecture in ancient Rome was not generally considered to belong to the artes liberales, Vitruvius easily qualified as a man of letters because of his wide learning.
- He read widely throughout these days, for his father had a taste for modern letters, and new books lay littered about the rooms.1899, John Buchan, The Far Islands
Meaning of letter
Noun
letter (plural letters)
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
- A written or printed communication, usually defined as longer and more formal than a note. (Sometimes specifically one that is on paper.)
- I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
- In obedience to humane laws, we muſt obſerve the letter of the Law, where we can without doing violence to the reaſon of the Law and the intention of the Law-giver: but where they croſſe each other, the charity of the Law is to be preferred before its diſcipline, and the reaſon of it before the...1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Of Obedience”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC, section I (Of Obedience to our Superiours), page 183
- Literature.
- Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled – a scientist, politician and a man of letters.
- A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
- Letter (b) constitutes an exception to this provision.
- A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm).
- Synonyms:
- short bond paper
Words formed from letters
Phrases with letters
- letters au
- air letters
- big letters
- day letters
- fan letters
- red letters
- sea letters
- sun letters
- call letters
- dead letters
- drop letters
- form letters
118 more phrasesFewer phrases
- love letters
- moon letters
- open letters
- ship letters
- side letters
- black letters
- block letters
- chain letters
- cover letters
- crank letters
- drive letters
- letters close
- lunar letters
- night letters
- query letters
- rhyme letters
- royal letters
- Sloan letters
- small letters
- solar letters
- stick letters
- swash letters
- demand letters
- double letters
- French letters
- market letters
- men of letters
- regret letters
- Sunday letters
- target letters
- begging letters
- capital letters
- comfort letters
- crossed letters
- letters missive
- letters of mart
- letters patents
- letters warrant
- proffer letters
- scarlet letters
- varsity letters
- advisory letters
- circular letters
- Claudian letters
- covering letters
- letters of peace
- letters rogatory
- nundinal letters
- pastoral letters
- superior letters
- women of letters
- Dear Jane letters
- Dear John letters
- dominical letters
- green-ink letters
- guarantee letters
- letters of advice
- letters of credit
- letters of intent
- letters of marque
- letters of regret
- letters of wishes
- letters pacifical
- no-action letters
- pacifical letters
- reference letters
- Stephanus letters
- uppercase letters
- encyclical letters
- in capital letters
- investment letters
- letters credential
- letters of comfort
- letters of comment
- letters of conduct
- letters of horning
- letters of request
- letters to editors
- poison pen letters
- poison-pen letters
- protective letters
- upper case letters
- upper-case letters
- Letters and Science
- letters of attorney
- letters of credence
- letters requisitory
- Republic of Letters
- transmittal letters
- accountant's letters
- letters of guarantee
- letters of indemnity
- letters of reference
- letters testamentary
- post-nominal letters
- pre-approval letters
- presidential letters
- letters of motivation
- letters of relaxation
- letters to the editor
- letters of composition
- letters of countermart
- letters of last resort
- letters of counter-mart
- letters of good conduct
- letters of introduction
- letters of safe conduct
- letters of testamentary
- bread-and-butter letters
- Doctor of Humane Letters
- letters after one's name
- letters of countermarque
- Doctors of Humane Letters
- letters of administration
- letters of recommendation
- commercial letters of credit
- irrevocable letters of credit
- letters of marque and reprisal
Questions about letters
- What does letters mean?
- Letters means literature (school subject).
- What is letters the plural of?
- Letters is the plural of letter.
- What part of speech is letters?
- Letters is a noun.
- How do you pronounce letters?
- Letters is pronounced /ˈlɛtɚz/ (US).
Words near letters in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: letters (page history and authors); letter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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