"letter" meaning in Englisch

See letter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

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-1
  2. Buchstabe
    Sense id: de-letter-en-noun-2
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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      "lang_code": "de",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Englisch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-07-01 from the dewiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (e79c026 and b863ecc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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