cover letter

1. 1.

   a letter sent along with other documents to provide additional information

   Synonymscovering letter

   Broaderletter

Questions about cover letter

What does cover letter mean?

cover letter means "a letter sent along with other documents to provide additional information".

What is another word for cover letter?

Close synonyms include covering letter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cover letter a common word?

cover letter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.