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Letter   /lˈɛtər/   Listen
Letter

noun
1.
A written message addressed to a person or organization.  Synonym: missive.
2.
The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech.  Synonyms: alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet.
3.
Owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire.
4.
A strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention).  "He obeyed the letter of the law"
5.
An award earned by participation in a school sport.  Synonym: varsity letter.
verb
(past & past part. lettered; pres. part. lettering)
1.
Win an athletic letter.
2.
Set down or print with letters.
3.
Mark letters on or mark with letters.



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"Letter" Quotes from Famous Books



... are marching or at a halt, in line or in column, and according as we are to guide centre, right, or left, the corporal needs (we proved it today) to have a cool head and a firm hold of his men. In one case we go forward, in another we march to one side before deploying, in still another we make a letter S, going backward and then forward again. There was a wonderful confusion this morning, with all of us greenhorns trying to learn this new work. Moreover, since we are volunteers, and men of intelligence, and by this time pretty well acquainted, every man of us thought he ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French

... which Constantine had given me, were not taken away. At the appointed times I remitted the tribute due, yes, and added to the sum, and received back the official acknowledgment signed by the Empress, and with it the official thanks. But with these never came either letter or message. Yet it is evident she knew that I was married, for to Heliodore did come a message, and with it a gift. The gift was that necklace and those other ornaments which Irene had caused to be made in an exact likeness of the string of golden shells separated by emerald beetles, one half ...
— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard

... the letter to take an interest in me," he soliloquized. "At any rate, he has given me money and clothes, and paid my passage to California. What for, I wonder? I don't believe it is to get me away from the bad influence of Tim. There must be ...
— Adrift in New York - Tom and Florence Braving the World • Horatio Alger

... mass of the Gran Sasso d'Italia towering above the lower peaks. At our feet is spread the beautiful and fertile island, in outward appearance little changed since the days when the good Bishop Berkeley "of every virtue under Heaven" penned its description nearly two centuries ago in a letter to Alexander Pope, wherein he described Ischia as "an epitome of ...
— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan

... retorted the justice, throwing a letter on the table. "The post brought me this, just ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood


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