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red-letter

red-letter adjective: particularly significant or positive.

Adjective

red-letter (not comparable)

  1. Particularly significant or positive.

Verb

red-letter (third-person singular simple present red-letters, present participle red-lettering, simple past and past participle red-lettered)

  1. (transitive) To mark or strike with red letters (a person or an object) for particular attention.

red-letter meaning in Bengali and Kannada

red-letter in Bengali

বিশেষভাবে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ, ইতিবাচক

red-letter in Kannada

ಸ್ಮರಣೀಯವಾದದ್ದು

Forms of red-letter

third-person singular presentred-letters
present participlered-lettering
past participlered-lettered
pastred-lettered

Phrases with red-letter

Questions about red-letter

What does red-letter mean?
Red-letter means particularly significant or positive.
What is red-letter in Bengali?
Red-letter in Bengali is বিশেষভাবে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ, ইতিবাচক. See Red-letter meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is red-letter?
Red-letter can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near red-letter in the dictionary

  1. red-legged partridge
  2. red-legged partridges
  3. red-legged tinamou
  4. red-legged tinamous
  5. red-legs
  6. red-letter
  7. Red-Letter Christian
  8. Red-Letter Christians
  9. red-letter day
  10. red-letter days
  11. red-letter edition

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Adapted from Wiktionary: red-letter (page history and authors); red-letter (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); red-letter (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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