letter
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(verb) mark letters on or mark with letters |
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Related Words: write |
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| 2. |
(verb) set down or print with letters |
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Related Words: impress, print |
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(verb) win an athletic letter, in sports |
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Related Words: earn, garner |
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(noun) a written message addressed to a person or organization; "wrote an indignant letter to the editor" |
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Synonyms: missive |
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Related Words: aerogram, aerogramme, air letter, airmail letter, business letter, chain letter, crank letter, dead letter, encyclical, encyclical letter, epistle, form letter, letter of intent, open letter, pastoral, personal letter, round robin, text, textual matter |
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(noun) an award earned by participation in a school sport; "he won letters in three sports" |
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Synonyms: varsity letter |
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Related Words: accolade, award, honor, honour, laurels |
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(noun) the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" |
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Synonyms: alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet |
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Related Words: aitch, aleph, alpha, ayin, beta, beth, block capital, block letter, character, chi, consonant, daleth, delta, digraph, ell, epsilon, eta, gamma, gimel, grapheme, graphic symbol, he, heth, initial, iota, kaph, kappa, lambda, lamedh, mem, mu, nu, nun, omega, omicron, pe, phi, pi, polyphone, polyphonic letter, psi, qoph, resh, rho, sadhe, samekh, shin, sigma, sin, tau, taw, teth, theta, upsilon, vowel, waw, xi, yodh, zayin, zed, zee, zeta |
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(noun) a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention); "he followed instructions to the letter"; "he obeyed the letter of the law" |
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Related Words: literal interpretation |
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