Princeton's WordNet

1. epistle(noun)

   a specially long, formal letter

2. Epistle(noun)

   a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle

Wiktionary

1. epistle(Noun)

   A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.

2. epistle(Noun)

   One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.

Origin: From epistle, from epistola, from ἐπιστολή, from ἐπιστέλλω, from ἐπί + στέλλω.

Webster Dictionary

1. Epistle(noun)

   a writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters

2. Epistle(noun)

   one of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles

3. Epistle(verb)

   to write; to communicate in a letter or by writing

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