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Letter

noun

A written message addressed to a person or organization. Synonym: missive.

The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech. Synonyms: alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet.

Owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire.

A strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention). "He obeyed the letter of the law"

An award earned by participation in a school sport. Synonym: varsity letter.

verb

(past & past part. lettered; pres. part. lettering)

Win an athletic letter.

Set down or print with letters.

Mark letters on or mark with letters.

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"Letter" Quotes from Famous Books

... at the letters a few minutes later he saw that the one lying at the top of the rest was an English letter and came from Yorkshire. It was directed in a plain woman's hand but it was not a hand he knew. He opened it, scarcely thinking of the writer, but the first words attracted ...

— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... faithfully, and said, "I want to write a letter to my mother, and tell her where I am going. I wish you would let me have an envelope and a stamp." Our friend obliged him with the necessaries, and L. left the office beaming with gratitude and ...

— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

... of 1842,—we are not quite sure of the date, but it was at any rate shortly after the establishment of the Reverend Theophilus Catesby at Ashfield,—the Doctor was in the receipt of a new letter from his friend Maverick, which set all his old calculations adrift. It was not Madame Arles, after all, who was the mother of Adele; and the poor gentleman found that he had wasted a great deal of needless sympathy in that ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

... last December, at Madeira," said Mary, quietly. "I saw him before he left England. We wrote to each other almost to the end. He was quite at peace. This letter here was from the chaplain at Madeira, who was kind to him, to tell me about ...

— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... and from care the wider lot Of humble life affords for studious thought To scan the maze of Nature, therefore stamp'd These glaring scenes with characters of scorn, As broad, as obvious to the passing clown 540 As to the letter'd sage's curious eye. But other evils o'er the steps of man Through all his walks impend; against whose might The slender darts of Laughter nought avail: A trivial warfare. Some, like cruel guards, On Nature's ever-moving throne attend; With mischief arm'd for him whoe'er shall thwart ...

— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside

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