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  • Lett
    Lett
    noun
    a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
  • Lett.
    Lett.
    abbreviation
    Lettish.

Lett

1 American  
[let] / lɛt /

noun

  1. a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.

  2. Latvian.


Lett. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Lettish.


Lett British  
/ lɛt /

noun

  1. another name for a Latvian

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Dominik Lett is a budget and entitlement policy analyst at the Cato Institute.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Adrienne Lett was asleep in her Altadena home when she heard someone banging on her window in the predawn hours of January 8.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

“I never even made it to $10 an hour,” said Ms. Lett, who retired in 2007, after four decades of factory and distribution center work.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023

The others are offensive line coach and former Miami head coach Joe Philbin, running backs coach Skip Peete, assistant defensive line coach Leon Lett and quality control analyst Kyle Valero.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2023

"Your fiancée is having a great success," Mrs. Braddocks looked out on the floor where Georgette was dancing in the arms of the tall, dark one, called Lett.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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