" letters "

[Noun]  | "let*ter" | \ ˈle-tər \

1: a symbol usually written or printed representing a speech sound and constituting a unit of an alphabet

2: a direct or personal written or printed message addressed to a person or organization

3: a written communication containing a grant —usually used in plural

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English, from Anglo-French lettre, from Latin littera letter of the alphabet, litterae, plural, epistle, literature;

[Noun]  | "let*ter" | \ ˈle-tər \

1: one that rents or leases

Origin: 1552 ;

[Verb]  | "letter" 

1: to set down in letters : print

2: to mark with letters

3: to win an athletic letter

Origin: 1504 ;

[Plural noun]  | "letters close" | \ -ˈklōs \

1: letters issued by a government or sovereign to a private person in a private matter

Origin: 1891 ;

[Plural noun]  | "letters patent" 

1: a writing (as from a sovereign) that confers on a designated person a grant in a form open for public inspection

Origin: 14th century ;

[Plural noun]  | "call letters" 

1: call sign

Origin: 1876 ;

[Noun phrase]  | "letters of administration" 

1: a letter evidencing the right of an administrator to administer the goods or estate of a deceased person

Origin: 15th century ;

[Noun phrase]  | "letters of marque" | \ -ˈmärk \

1: written authority granted to a private person by a government to seize the subjects of a foreign state or their goods; specifically : a license granted to a private person to fit out an armed ship to plunder the enemy

Origin: 15th century ;

[Noun phrase]  | "man of letters" 

1: scholar

2: author

Origin: 1645 ;

[Noun phrase]  | "woman of letters" 

1: a woman who is a scholar

2: a woman who is an author

Origin: 1818 ;

[Noun]  | "letters" 

[Noun]  | "letters" 

[Noun]  | "letter" 

[Noun]  | "letter" 

[Noun]  | "open letters" 

[Verb]  | "letters" 

[Phrase]  | "man of letters" 

[Phrase]  | "woman of letters" 

[Phrase]  | "men of letters" 

[Phrase]  | "women of letters"