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letter
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l?t?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?t?/, /-??/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?let?(?)/, /-??(?)/
- Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(r), -?t?(?)
- Hyphenation: let?ter
Etymology 1
From Middle English letter, lettre, from Old French letre, from Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthér?, “tablet”). Displaced native Middle English bocstaf, bookstave (“letter, alphabetic symbol”) (from Old English b?cstæf (“alphabetic symbol, written character”)), Middle English bocrune, bocroune (“letter, written character”) (from Old English b?c (“book”) + r?n (“letter, rune”)), Middle English writrune, writroune (“letter, document”) (from Old English writ (“letter, epistle”) + r?n (“letter, rune”)), Old English ?rendb?c (“letter, message”), Old English ?rend?ewrit (“letter, written message”). Doublet of diphtheria.
Alternative forms
- lettre (obsolete)
Noun
letter (plural letters)
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew.
- A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.
- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (often contrasted with the spirit).
- (plural) Literature.
- (law) A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
- (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm).
- (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
- (US, scholastic) Clipping of varsity letter.
- (printing, dated) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
Synonyms
- (written character/alphabetic symbol): bookstaff/bookstave
Hyponyms
- epistle
- missive
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
letter (third-person singular simple present letters, present participle lettering, simple past and past participle lettered)
- (transitive) To print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
- (intransitive, US, scholastic) To earn a varsity letter (award).
Translations
Etymology 2
let +? -er.
Alternative forms
- lettor
Noun
letter (plural letters)
- One who lets, or lets out.
- (archaic) One who retards or hinders.
Translations
Further reading
- letter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- letter (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- letter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- letter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- lettre, tetrel
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch letter, from Middle Dutch lettere, from Old French lettre, from Latin littera.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?.t?r/
Noun
letter (plural letters, diminutive lettertjie)
- letter (letter of the alphabet)
Derived terms
- hoofletter
- letterkunde
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lettere, from Old French lettre, from Latin littera.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?.t?r/
- Hyphenation: let?ter
- Rhymes: -?t?r
Noun
letter f (plural letters, diminutive lettertje n)
- letter (letter of the alphabet)
- (obsolete) letter (written message)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: letter
- ? Indonesian: leter
- ? Japanese: ???? (retteru)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Verb
letter
- present of lette
Etymology 2
Noun
letter m
- indefinite plural of lett (non-standard since 2005)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
letter m
- indefinite plural of lett (non-standard since 2012)
Swedish
Noun
letter
- indefinite plural of lett
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ascender
English
Etymology
ascend +? -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Noun
ascender (plural ascenders)
- A person or thing that ascends.
- (typography, graphology) The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 1,
- Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”). “It's those enormous ascenders, darling,” she said: “I see a lot of ego.”
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 1,
- (climbing) a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.
Coordinate terms
- descender
Related terms
- ascend
- ascent
- ascendant
- ascendance
- ascendancy/ascendency
- ascending
Translations
Anagrams
- reascend
Interlingua
Verb
ascender
- to ascend, go up
Conjugation
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ascendo, ascendere.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.s?.?de(?)/
Verb
ascender (first-person singular present indicative ascendo, past participle ascendido)
- (intransitive) to ascend; to rise
- Synonyms: subir, alçar
Conjugation
Related terms
- ascensão
- descender
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ascendo, ascendere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /as?en?de?/, [as.??n??d?e?]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /asen?de?/, [a.s?n??d?e?]
Verb
ascender (first-person singular present asciendo, first-person singular preterite ascendí, past participle ascendido)
- to ascend, to mount, to climb
- Antonym: descender
- (business) to advance
- (of status) to rise
Conjugation
Related terms
Further reading
- “ascender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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