letters

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛtɚz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛtəz/

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Noun

letters

1. plural of letter

Noun

letters

1. 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.

2. 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.

   • 1899, John Buchan, The Far Islands:

     He read widely throughout these days, for his father had a taste for modern letters, and new books lay littered about the rooms.

Derived terms

• arts and letters
• man of letters
• woman of letters

 

Verb

letters

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of letter

Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, lettres, settler, sterlet, tetrels, trestle

Afrikaans

Noun

letters

1. plural of letter

Dutch

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Noun

letters

1. plural of letter

Middle English

Noun

letters

1. Alternative form of lettres

Swedish

Noun

letters

1. indefinite genitive plural of lett