letternoun [ C ]
uk/ˈlet.ər/us/ˈlet̬.ɚ/letter noun [ C ] (MESSAGE)
A1 a written message from one person to another, usually put in an envelope and sent by post:
I got a letter from the bank this morning.
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- He read her letter aloud to the rest of the family.
- I folded the letter in half and put it in an envelope.
- We try to answer readers' letters as promptly as we can.
- In those days people used to write a lot more letters.
- I had a lovely, long, chatty letter from my friend this morning.
letter noun [ C ] (SYMBOL)
A2 any of the set of symbols used to write a language, representing a sound in the language:
the letter D
the letter of the law formal
the exact words of the law and not its more important general meaning
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- What letter does it start with?
- How many letters are there in the alphabet?
- Z is the last letter of the alphabet.
- Our names all start with the letter P.
- Letter S is the longest letter in the English dictionary.
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Lettering & alphabets
- ABC
- camel case
- character
- copperplate
- cuneiform
- cursive
- Cyrillic
- hand-lettered
- hieroglyph
- ideogram
- incapping
- initial
- kanji
- notation
- penmanship
- phonetic
- rune
- script
- stenography
- upper case
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Rules & laws
Idiom(s)
to the letter
letteradjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈlet.ər/us/ˈlet̬.ɚ/USused to refer to a standard size of paper in the US, 8.5 inches by 11 inches:
Fliers are usually printed either on letter size or legal size paper.
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Publishing: paper & stationery
- A3
- A5
- acid-free
- assembler
- ballpoint pen
- grammage
- graph paper
- headed notepaper
- highlighter
- jotter
- keypad
- pencil
- qwerty
- ream
- rice paper
- rough paper
- scrap paper
- slate
- tissue
- watermark
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