[
UK
/lˈɛtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɫɛtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɛtɝ/ ]
VERB
- set down or print with letters
- win an athletic letter
- mark letters on or mark with letters
NOUN
-
an award earned by participation in a school sport
he won letters in three sports -
a written message addressed to a person or organization
mailed an indignant letter to the editor -
a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
he obeyed the letter of the law
he followed instructions to the letter -
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
his grandmother taught him his letters - owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
How To Use letter In A Sentence
- A letter to his wife in 1847 tells of a visit to the Brights at Rochdale; how 'John and I discorded in our views not a little', and how 'I shook peaceable Brightdom as with Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
- Though Jane tells herself stories, listens to stories told by others, and reads, she never writes anything other than a few letters-misaddressed and undelivered letters, at that.
- Most of this I've written down to get my own thoughts in order before I start draughting letters to the media, but first I have a couple of weeks of university to catch up on… sheesh.
- Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
- After an exchange of letters, I have finally got my appointment for next week - whoopee, I am still alive to attend it, thank God.
- The present study investigated how children spell words that contain silent consonants as their final letter.
- Does the name on the envelope correspond with the name on the letter inside?
- I'll transmit the letter by special messenger.
- Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
- The second section of an ancient Greco - Roman letter was prayer or a word of thanks.