letters
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Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɛtɚz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɛtəz/
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Noun[edit]
letters
Noun[edit]
letters
- 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.
- 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.
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letters
- third-person singular simple present indicative of letter
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- Alternative form of lettres
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