Letter vs. Alphabet

Letternoun

A symbol in an alphabet.

Letternoun

A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.

Letternoun

The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (often contrasted with the spirit).

Letternoun

Literature.

Letternoun

(law) A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.

Letternoun

A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm).

Letternoun

A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.

Letternoun

clipping of varsity letter

Letternoun

A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.

Letternoun

One who lets, or lets out.

Letternoun

(archaic) One who retards or hinders.

Letterverb

(transitive) To print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.

Letterverb

To earn a varsity letter (award).

Letternoun

One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.

Letternoun

One who retards or hinders.

Letternoun

A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.

Letternoun

A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.

Letternoun

A writing; an inscription.

Letternoun

Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.

Letternoun

A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.

Letternoun

Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.

Letternoun

A letter; an epistle.

Letternoun

A telegram longer than an ordinary message sent at rates lower than the standard message rate in consideration of its being sent and delivered subject to priority in service of regular messages. Such telegrams are called by the Western Union Company day letters, or night letters according to the time of sending, and by The Postal Telegraph Company day lettergrams, or night lettergrams.

Letterverb

To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

Letternoun

a written message addressed to a person or organization;

Letternoun

the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech;

Letternoun

a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention);

Letternoun

an award earned by participation in a school sport;

Letternoun

owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire

Letterverb

win an athletic letter

Letterverb

set down or print with letters

Letterverb

mark letters on or mark with letters

Letternoun

a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet

Letternoun

the initials of a degree or other qualification

Letternoun

a school or college initial as a mark of proficiency, especially in sport

Letternoun

a written, typed, or printed communication, sent in an envelope by post or messenger

Letternoun

a legal or formal document.

Letternoun

the precise terms of a statement or requirement; the strict verbal interpretation

Letternoun

literature

Letternoun

scholarly knowledge; erudition.

Letternoun

a style of typeface.

Letterverb

inscribe letters or writing on

Letterverb

classify with letters

Letterverb

be given a school or college initial as a mark of proficiency in sport

Alphabetnoun

The set of letters used when writing in a language.

Alphabetnoun

A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.

Alphabetnoun

A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. Contrast e.g. abjad.

Alphabetnoun

(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

Alphabetnoun

An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.

Alphabetnoun

The simplest rudiments; elements.

Alphabetverb

(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Alphabetnoun

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

Alphabetnoun

The simplest rudiments; elements.

Alphabetverb

To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Alphabetnoun

a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language

Alphabetnoun

the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural);

Alphabet

An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, for instance, and logographic systems use characters to represent words, morphemes, or other semantic units.The first fully phonemic script, the Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is considered to be the first alphabet, and is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic.