Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: lettered
IPA transcription: [l'ɛtɚd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read
    Meaning: highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
Usage examples
  • She gave a reminiscent sniff as she threw up the cover and saw on the under side of it a big label of pasteboard unevenly lettered.
  • It was deposited in Wyatt's own; and there, too, it remained, occupying very nearly the whole of the floor--no doubt to the exceeding discomfort of the artist and his wife;--this the more especially as the tar or paint with which it was lettered in sprawling capitals, emitted a strong, disagreeable, and, to my fancy, a peculiarly disgusting odor.