letter meaning
EN
[ˈlɛtə] [ˈletə] [ˈlɛtɚ] [ˈlɛɾɚ] [-ɛtə(r)] 
US UK WLetter
- Letter, letters, or literature may refer to:
- NounPLlettersSUF-er
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
- A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.
- I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (often contrasted with "the spirit").
- (plural) Literature.
- Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled - a scientist, politician and a man of letters.
- (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm).
- (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
- (US, scholastic) Short for varsity letter.
- (printing, dated) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
- One who lets, or lets out.
- the letter of a room
- a blood-letter
- (archaic) One who retards or hinders.
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- VerbSGlettersPRletteringPT, PPlettered
- (transitive) to print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
- (intransitive, US, scholastic) To earn a varsity letter (award).
- (transitive) to print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet? She’s quite a writer!
- Months after they printed the article, the number of angry letters finally started to taper off.
- "The upcasing of the string 'foo' to be all upper case letters resulted in 'FOO'."
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Letters of the alphabet are the figurae that comprise a written word.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
- My correspondent apologized for not answering my letter.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of letter in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -er
- Words suffixed with -er
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Morphemes
- en letters
- en letterpress
- en letter-perfect
- en letterhead
- en letterbox
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "letter" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.