letters

About 64.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun plural of letter
2. noun 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.

3. noun 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.

4. verb third-person singular simple present indicative of letter

Similar words

missive varsity letter alphabetic character letter of the alphabet literature arts initials written humanities writing

Often followed by

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