Meanings
nouncall letters pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlybroadcastingCall sign.
I left my smartphone on the kitchen counter alongside a notepad on which I scribbled in pen: Got called away for work. I love you. I signed it with my call-letter nickname, Echo.
2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN
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call letters. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/call%20letters
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“call letters.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/call%20letters. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “call letters,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/call%20letters.
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