letters

Speech parts

1. letters - Noun

2. letters - Verb

Meaning

the literary culture

scholarly attainment

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

epistle ABCs information character type culture education writing knowledge letter post alphabet enlightenment mailbag literature
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Antonyms

numbers electronic communication questions digits secondary source whole numbers
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Hypernyms

culture learning scholarship erudition encyclopedism learnedness

Phrases with the word

man of letters Claudian letters person of letters exchange letters large letters boat that transports letters

Anagrams

settler sterlet trestle Stelter Stetler

Examples

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. Knut Hamsun

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. Thomas Babington Macaulay

The letters from jail are always disconcerting. Eliza Dushku

Memory slips, letters remain. Welsh Proverb

Don't promise something when you are full of joy; don't answer letters when you are full of anger. Chinese Proverb

Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat. Dutch Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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