[
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
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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
- 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.
- 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.
- Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
- The company has been sitting on my letter for weeks without dealing with my complaint.
- You'll have to pay excess postal charges on this letter.
- We consult to the media about canopy questions, we have a canopy newsletter, we have an email LISTSERV, and so we're trying to disseminate information about the importance of the canopy, the beauty of the canopy, the necessity of intact canopies, to people outside of academia. Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy
- It has many kerned letters which are liable to break off at the ends of the lines in an exposed position. The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters
- 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.
