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epistolary
Meaning: relating to letters or a story told through letters
epistolary in a sentence
How epistolary is used in real sentences:
The novel uses an epistolary form, unfolding through letters exchanged by two sisters.
The scholar examined the author's epistolary friendship through decades of private correspondence.
“From her case Mara unpacked an epistolary record whose faded postmarks spanned eleven years; its pages carried parents’ accounts of headaches, shaking hands, and the metallic taste that followed evenings near the creek.”
— from the passage The Case She Carried
“Instead, radiographs showed an intact casting, while an epistolary archive of foundry letters described a tone so lugubrious that parishioners compared it to a funeral knell.”
— from the passage The Fault in the Bronze
Synonyms for epistolary
Other words for epistolary — letter-writing, correspondence-based and letter-based — carry the same meaning.
- letter-writing
- correspondence-based
- letter-based
Antonyms of epistolary
Words that mean the opposite of epistolary:
- oral
- spoken
- unwritten
Where it comes from
From Latin epistola, meaning 'letter or message.'
Word parts
- epi — upon; over
epistolary: epi- (toward) + stol (send) + -ary (relating to) - -ary/-ory — Makes adjectives meaning relating to, or nouns for associated people, things, or places.
epistolary: epistol (letter) + -ary (relating to)
Memory hook
EPISTOLARY begins like EPISTLE, a formal letter.
Practice epistolary in the app