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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