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letter
  1. A symbol in an alphabet.
  2. A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.
  3. The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (often contrasted with the spirit).
  4. (plural) Literature.
  5. (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm).
  6. (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
  7. (US, scholastic) Clipping of varsity letter.
  8. (printing, dated) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “Sandra made me a chocolate brown shirt with a big letter B on the right collar and a big letter G on the left, to wear with matching trousers.”
      “I wrote him a letter and told him what I had heard about Carter.”
      “I quickly notified the letter of my apartment about an issue with the plumbing.”
letterer
  1. A person who is professionally employed to add writing to something (as a sign, shop window, etc.)
  2. A particular profession in the production of comics, an artist specializing in neatly writing written material such as dialogue.
  3. A device for printing letters of text.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I think he's a brilliant cartoonist, a spot-on caricaturist, an excellent letterer and a very fine writer-of-comics.”
      “MacPherson, artist Grant Bond, letterer Neil Uyetake, and editor Tom Waltz.”
letterboard
  1. A signboard for lettering or text.
  2. A board marked with letters of the alphabet, used for communication by the disabled.
letterform
  1. The shape of an individual letter
  2. The design and development of such shapes
  3. Examples:
    1. “For this exercise, students were shown how to create a large letterform using only Quark.”
      “Only 11 apostles are sitting in a semi-circle against a floriated, architecturally inspired letterform as if Matthias has not yet been selected.”
      “The Met changed to a serif letterform for its signs in the 1920s, used on the stations rebuilt by Clark.”
letter
  1. One who lets, or lets out.
  2. (archaic) One who retards or hinders.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Sandra made me a chocolate brown shirt with a big letter B on the right collar and a big letter G on the left, to wear with matching trousers.”
      “I wrote him a letter and told him what I had heard about Carter.”
      “I quickly notified the letter of my apartment about an issue with the plumbing.”
letterman
  1. (US) A student who has attained a specified level of participation in a sporting or other activity, and is awarded a cloth “letter” to be affixed to an item of clothing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He was a four-year varsity letterman in bowling and was the team captain and most valuable player his junior and senior years.”
      “He grew up in Brooklyn, the son of a well-to-do family, a letterman in three sports and the most popular boy in the senior class at Erasmus High.”
      “He preceded me as a four-sport letterman at Orange High School in New Jersey.”
lettre
  1. Obsolete form of letter.
lettering
letterboards
  1. plural of letterboard
letterforms
  1. plural of letterform
lettermen
  1. plural of letterman
  2. Examples:
    1. “All together, 11 lettermen are back, including every starter except center Jamar Smith.”
letterings
letterers
letters
lettres
  1. plural of lettre
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