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nonletters

nonletters is the plural of nonletter.

Meaning of nonletter

Noun

nonletter (plural nonletters)

  1. That which is not a letter (alphabetic symbol).
    • Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times
  2. That which is not a letter (written message to be delivered).

Questions about nonletters

What is nonletters the plural of?
Nonletters is the plural of nonletter.

Words near nonletters in the dictionary

  1. nonlethality
  2. nonlethally
  3. nonlethals
  4. nonletter
  5. nonletterpress
  6. nonletters
  7. nonleukaemic
  8. nonleukemia
  9. nonleukemic
  10. nonleukemogenic
  11. nonleukopenic

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