letterhead

English

Etymology

From letter +‎ head.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛtə(ɹ)ˌhɛd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

letterhead (countable and uncountable, plural letterheads)

1. A portion of text at the top of a letter, identifying the sender and often giving their address etc., used for formal correspondence.

   We need to change our letterhead to use the new logo.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:

     The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead.

2. Paper marked with a letterhead.

   Internal memos do not need to be printed on letterhead.

Translations

portion of text at the top of a letter

Chinese:  Mandarin: 信頭 / 信头 Finnish: yläotsake (fi)  French: en-tête (fr) f Polish: nagłówek (pl) m

paper marked with a letterhead

Chinese:  Mandarin: 信箋 / 信笺 (zh) (xìnjiān) Finnish: kirjelomake  French: papier à en-tête m Polish: papier firmowy m

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Armenian: բլանկ (hy) (blank) Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: briefhoofd (nl) n French: en-tète m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Briefkopf (de) m Greek: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: levélfejléc, levélpapírfejléc, fejléc (hu), cégjelzés (hu) Italian: intestazione (it) f Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kannada: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can Malay: kepala surat Persian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: antet (ro) n Russian: фи́рменный бланк m (fírmennyj blank) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: за́гла̄вље пи́сма n Latin: memorandum (sh) m, záglāvlje písma n Spanish: membrete (es) m Swedish: brevhuvud (sv) n Tagalog: ulunliham, membrete Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: antet (tr), başlık (tr) Turkmen: please add this translation if you can Uzbek: please add this translation if you can

See also

• masthead