Letters

Quick meaning: Letters is a noun meaning plural of letter.

Meaning

plural of letter.

More Meanings

1. Literature (school subject).
2. The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).
3. third-person singular simple present indicative of letter

Example Sentences

He read widely throughout these days, for his father had a taste for modern letters, and new books lay littered about the rooms.

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.

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.

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Related dictionary entries include missive, literature, initials, written, humanities, writing.

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