letters patent

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   an official document granting a right or privilege

   Synonymspatent

   Broaderlegal document

   law

Questions about letters patent

What does letters patent mean?

letters patent means "an official document granting a right or privilege".

What is another word for letters patent?

Close synonyms include patent. 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 letters patent a common word?

letters patent 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.