letter
1. a written message addressed to a person or organization (Freq. 65)
- mailed an indignant letter to the editor
• Syn:
missive
• Hypernyms:
text, textual matter, document
• Hyponyms:
business letter, covering letter, cover letter, crank letter, encyclical,
encyclical letter, fan letter, personal letter, form letter, open letter, chain letter,
pastoral, round robin, airmail letter, air letter, aerogram, aerogramme,
epistle, dead letter, dead mail, letter of intent, invitation
• Part Holonyms:
correspondence, mail
• Part Meronyms:
postscript, PS, address, destination, name and address, line
2. the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech (Freq. 7)
- his grandmother taught him his letters
• Syn:
letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
• Hypernyms:
character, grapheme, graphic symbol
• Hyponyms:
ascender, descender, digraph, digram, initial,
A, a, B, b, C, c,
D, d, E, e, F, f,
G, g, H, h, I, i,
J, j, K, k, L, l,
M, m, N, n, O, o,
P, p, Q, q, R, r,
S, s, T, t, U, u,
V, v, W, w, double-u, X,
x, ex, Y, y, wye, Z,
z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard, alpha,
beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta,
theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu,
xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau,
upsilon, phi, chi, khi, psi, omega,
aleph, beth, gimel, daleth, he, waw,
zayin, heth, teth, yodh, kaph, lamedh,
mem, nun, samekh, ayin, pe, sadhe,
qoph, resh, sin, shin, taw, polyphone,
polyphonic letter, block letter, block capital, vowel, consonant
• Member Holonyms:
alphabet
• Part Holonyms:
spelling
3. owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
• Derivationally related forms:
let
• Hypernyms:
owner, proprietor
4. a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
- he followed instructions to the letter
- he obeyed the letter of the law
• Hypernyms:
literal interpretation
5. an award earned by participation in a school sport
- he won letters in three sports
• Syn:
varsity letter
• Hypernyms:
award, accolade, honor, honour, laurels
1. win an athletic letter (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
earn, garner
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
2. set down or print with letters
• Derivationally related forms:
letterer
• Hypernyms:
print, impress
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. mark letters on or mark with letters
• Derivationally related forms:
letterer
• Hypernyms:
write
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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