Meaning & use
letter
A written or printed message sent from one person to another, usually by mail.
See it in a sentence
She wrote a long letter to her grandmother describing her trip to Spain.
He mailed the letter without remembering to add a stamp.
A note on using this word
Letter also means a symbol representing a speech sound, as in the letters of the alphabet.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A character or symbol used to represent a sound in a writing system, as in the alphabet.
The word 'cat' is made up of three letters.
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