Letters

//ˈlɛtɚz// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of letter form-of, plural
  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    the literary culture wordnet
  4. 4
    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."

  5. 5
    scholarly attainment wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of letter form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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