Letter
A
letter is a
written message. Letters are usually intended to be received by someone far away (contrast with
note). Before widespread availability of typewriters and
computers, letters were always written by hand. Nowadays that is still done, mainly for informal letters. The term letter is also used for
email messages with a formal letterlike format.
A letter is also a character of the alphabet.
The letter is also a standard US paper size.
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