Word Study
belle-lettrist |
belleau wood |
belled |
belleek ware |
bellerophon |
belles lettres
| belles-lettres
| belletristic
| belletristical
| bellflower
| bellflower family
belles lettres
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun belles lettres has 1 sense
- belles lettres(n = noun.communication) belles-lettres - creative writing valued for esthetic content; Array is a kind of literary composition, literary work
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belles lettres
Language
N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.
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