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multilettered en · ADJ

Etymology

From multi- + lettered.

Meanings

1. Having many letters (characters of an alphabet).
   • The reader soon begins to recognise these patterns, like the recurrent multilettered thunder-word, representing the thunderclap which terrified the savage cavemen into religious belief and started off the cycle of civilisation. 1978, Matthew John Caldwell Hodgart, James Joyce: a student's guide, page 133:

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