letter

Các nghĩa

1. chữ cái · kí tự

   A symbol in an alphabet.

   There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.

2. người cho thuê

   A written or printed communication, usually defined as longer and more formal than a note. (Sometimes specifically one that is on paper.)

   I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.

3. The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).

   I broke the letter of it to keep the sense.

4. Literature.

   in-plural

   Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled – a scientist, politician and a man of letters.

5. A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.

   Letter (b) constitutes an exception to this provision.

6. A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm).

   us · uncountable

7. A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.

   canada · uncountable

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• letters plural