"letter" meaning in All languages combined

See letter on Wiktionary

Noun [Englisch]

IPA: letə(r), letə(r)s Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-letter.wav , En-uk-letter.ogg , En-us-letter.ogg , En-us-letters.ogg Forms: the letter [singular], the letters [plural]
  1. Brief
    Sense id: de-letter-en-noun-rECuHo1B
  2. Buchstabe
    Sense id: de-letter-en-noun-jftZjMLl
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bookstaff Translations (Brief): Brief [masculine] (Deutsch), mektup (Türkisch) Translations (Buchstabe): Buchstabe [masculine] (Deutsch), harf (Türkisch)

Inflected forms

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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Substantiv (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the letter",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the letters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "let·ter",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My father wrote at least two letters daily.",
          "translation": "Mein Vater schrieb mindestens zwei Briefe am Tag."
        },
        {
          "author": "Maeve Binchy",
          "edition": "2.",
          "isbn": "978-0-307-74289-6",
          "pages": "246",
          "place": "New York",
          "publisher": "Anchor Books (Random House Inc.)",
          "ref": "Maeve Binchy: Minding Frankie. 2. Auflage. Anchor Books (Random House Inc.), New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-74289-6, Seite 246 .",
          "text": "„Read it, Clara“. So she began to read a letter from a young man\":",
          "title": "Minding Frankie",
          "translation": "„Lese es, Clara“. So begann sie einen Brief eines jungen Mannes zu lesen:",
          "year": "2011"
        }
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        "Brief"
      ],
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      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Peter, please tell me the third letter of the alphabet.",
          "translation": "Peter, sage mir wie der dritte Buchstabe des Alphabetes lautet."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Buchstabe"
      ],
      "id": "de-letter-en-noun-jftZjMLl",
      "sense_index": "2"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "letə(r)"
    },
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      "ipa": "letə(r)s",
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        "Plural:"
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    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "bookstaff"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Brief",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Brief"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Türkisch",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Brief",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "mektup"
    },
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      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Buchstabe",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Buchstabe"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Türkisch",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Buchstabe",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "harf"
    }
  ],
  "word": "letter"
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    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
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      "form": "the letter",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the letters",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "let·ter",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "text": "My father wrote at least two letters daily.",
          "translation": "Mein Vater schrieb mindestens zwei Briefe am Tag."
        },
        {
          "author": "Maeve Binchy",
          "edition": "2.",
          "isbn": "978-0-307-74289-6",
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          "text": "„Read it, Clara“. So she began to read a letter from a young man\":",
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          "translation": "„Lese es, Clara“. So begann sie einen Brief eines jungen Mannes zu lesen:",
          "year": "2011"
        }
      ],
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        "Brief"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
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        {
          "text": "Peter, please tell me the third letter of the alphabet.",
          "translation": "Peter, sage mir wie der dritte Buchstabe des Alphabetes lautet."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Buchstabe"
      ],
      "sense_index": "2"
    }
  ],
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    },
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    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "bookstaff"
    }
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      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Brief",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Brief"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Türkisch",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Brief",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "mektup"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Buchstabe",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Buchstabe"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Türkisch",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Buchstabe",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "harf"
    }
  ],
  "word": "letter"
}

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