Meaning of Letters | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Literature (school subject).
2. The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).

Equivalents

Examples

“Rickert was the first woman (and second individual) to be awarded a Ph.D. in English letters and philology with that academic honor at the University of Chicago.”

“Though architecture in ancient Rome was not generally considered to belong⟳ to the artes liberales, Vitruvius easily qualified as a man of letters because of his wide learning.”

“He read⟳ widely throughout these days, for his father had a taste⟳ for modern letters, and new books lay⟳ littered about the rooms.”

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