letters en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈlɛtɚz/ (General-American)
- /ˈlɛtəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Meanings
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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.
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(form-of, plural) plural of letter
form of letter
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The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).
He read widely throughout these days, for his father had a taste for modern letters, and new books lay littered about the rooms.
1899, John Buchan, The Far Islands: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.
Deriveds
woman of letters · man of letters · arts and letters · letters patent