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letter (s) (noun), letters (pl)
A mark or sign that represents speech sounds that are used in forming words: The letters of the alphabet, which utilize written materials for literate people to read, are taught in the first year of school.
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Units related to: “letter”
epist-
(Latin: letter; message)
liter-
(Latin: letter; a graphic symbol, a written character, an alphabetic sign)
alpha; A, α +
(Greek: ; beginning, first of anything; first letter of the Greek alphabet; used in physics and chemistry to designate a variety of series or values)
beta; B, β +
(Greek: B, β; second letter of the Greek alphabet and the second object in any order of arrangement or classification)
chi; Χ, χ +
(Greek: twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet; Χ, χ)
delta, delt-; Δ, δ
(Greek: triangular; fourth letter; Δ, δ, of the Greek alphabet)
epsilon; Ε, ε +
(Greek: the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ε, ε)
eta; Η, η
(Greek: the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet; Η, η)
gamma; Γ, γ +
(Greek: Γ, γ; the third letter of the Greek alphabet; corresponding to g, as in go and as a numeral, it indicates 3)
iota
(Greek: the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet)
kappa; Κ, κ +
(Greek: the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Κ, κ)
lambda; Λ, λ +
(Greek: the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet; Λ, λ)
mu [MYOO]; Μ, μ +
(Greek: the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet; Μ, μ)
nu [NYOO]; Ν, ν +
(Greek: the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ν, ν)
omega; Ω, ω +
(Greek: the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet; Ω, ω; the ending, the last of anything)
omicron; Ο, ο +
(Greek: the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)
phi; Φ, φ +
(Greek: the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet; Φ, φ)
pi; Π, π +
(Greek: the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Π, π)
psi; Ψ, ψ +
(Greek: the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet; Ψ, ψ)
Quotes: Work, Labor
(a four-letter and a five-letter word that are avoided by many people)
rho; Ρ, ρ +
(Greek: the seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ρ, ρ)
sigma; Σ, σ, ς +
(Greek: the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Σ, σ [beginning of word], ς [end of word])
sigmoido-, sigmo- +
(Greek: sigmoeides, shaped like the letter sigma; pertaining to the sigmoid flexure, the S-shaped bend in the colon; a combining form that usually denotes the sigmoid colon)
tau; Τ, τ +
(Greek: the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Τ, τ)
theta; Θ, θ +
(Greek: the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet; Θ, θ; theta symbol, ϑ)
upsilon; Υ, υ +
(Greek: the twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet; Υ, υ; upsilon symbol with hook, ϒ)
xi; Ξ, ξ +
(Greek: the fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ξ, ξ)
zeta; Ζ, ζ
(Greek: the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ζ, ζ)
Playing with Words
(based on words from The Washington Post's "Style Invitational" in which readers were given the opportunity to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and then to provide a new definition for the modified word)
Word Challenges
(using definitions and a letter added to the beginning of the second word of two words with the same spellings will produce two completely different words)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “letter”
Letter of the law (2 Corinthians 3:6)
This entry is located in the following unit: Bible Quotations used in modern English (page 3)
Write a number out that contains the letter a
The first numerical word that consists of the letter a is "one thousand"; believe it, or not.
This entry is located in the following unit: Number Challenges (page 1)