varsity letter

1. 1.

   an award earned by participation in a school sport

   “he won letters in three sports”

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   Broaderaward

Questions about varsity letter

What does varsity letter mean?

varsity letter means "an award earned by participation in a school sport".

What is another word for varsity letter?

Close synonyms include 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 varsity letter a common word?

varsity 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.