"letter writer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: letter writers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} letter writer (plural letter writers)
  1. A correspondent; a writer of letters. Categories (topical): Books Synonyms: letter-writer Translations (correspondent): briefskrywer (Afrikaans), Briefeschreiber [masculine] (German), αλληλογράφος (allilográfos) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), brevskrivare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-letter_writer-en-noun-T2b406tW Disambiguation of Books: 48 16 36 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 10 34 Disambiguation of 'correspondent': 86 8 6
  2. A person employed to write letters for illiterate people; a person who does this as an occupation.
    Sense id: en-letter_writer-en-noun-1PbHgFCJ
  3. A book containing examples of letters that can be imitated by those who wish to write correspondence.
    Sense id: en-letter_writer-en-noun-N4OtNJ1f

Inflected forms

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