Added 9 October 2026
letters
/ˈlɛtɚz/ noun
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about letters at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- plural of letter
noun
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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.
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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
- third-person singular simple present indicative of letter