different between erudition vs letters

English

Etymology

[15th Century] From Middle French érudition, from Latin eruditio (“an instructing, learning, erudition”), from erudire (“to instruct, educate, cultivate”, literally “free from rudeness”), from e (“out”) + rudis (“rude”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????d???n/

Noun

erudition (countable and uncountable, plural eruditions)

1. Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
2. The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers.

Synonyms

• (profound knowledge): knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarism

Related terms

• erudite
• rude

Translations

Further reading

• erudition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• erudition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• erudition at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?t?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?t?z/

Noun

letters

1. plural of letter

Noun

letters

1. Literature (school subject).

   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.

2. 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.

Derived terms

• man of letters

Verb

letters

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of letter

Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, lettres, settler, sterlet, tetrels, trestle

Afrikaans

Noun

letters

1. plural of letter

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

letters

1. Plural form of letter

Middle English

Noun

letters

1. Alternative form of lettres

Swedish

Noun

letters

1. indefinite genitive plural of lett