Meanings
comparative more multilettered · superlative most multilettered
- Having many letters (characters of an alphabet).
The reader soon begins to recognise these patterns, like the recurrent multilettered thunder-word, representing the thunderclap which terrified the savage cavemen into religious belief and started off the cycle of civilisation.
1978, Matthew John Caldwell Hodgart, James Joyce: a student's guide, page 133
Origin
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multilettered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multilettered
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