letters

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letters

/ˈlɛtɚz/ US
/ˈlɛtəz/ UK

noun

plural plural of letter

noun

Literature. 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.

verb

indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of letter

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: missive, varsity letter, alphabetic character, literature, arts, initials, written, humanities, writing, addressed, correspondence, correlation, courier, book, message, ens

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"letters." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/letters. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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letters. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/letters

Chicago

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@misc{letters_2026,
  title = {letters},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/letters},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}