Definizione monolingua

missive

missive (plural missives)

1. (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
   • 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2008:

     The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 71:

     ""Curses throttle thee!"" yelled Ahab. ""Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it""; and taking the fatal missive from Starbucks hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.

Definizione dizionario missive

lettera

Altri significati:

a written message

(formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.