letter

letter (danh từ) nghĩa là chữ cái, thư, lá thư.

1. A symbol in an alphabet.Một ký hiệu trong bảng chữ cái.
2. A written or printed communication, usually defined as longer and more formal than a note. (Sometimes specifically one that is on paper.)Thông tin trao đổi dưới dạng viết hoặc in, thường dài và trang trọng hơn lời nhắn; đôi khi chỉ thư viết trên giấy.
3. The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
4. Literature.
5. A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.

• There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
• I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.
• Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled – a scientist, politician and a man of letters.