What does letterman mean?

Definitions for letterman
let·ter·man

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word letterman.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. lettermannoun

    an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport

Wiktionary

  1. lettermannoun

    A college student who has attained a specified level of participation in a sporting or other activity, and is awarded a cloth letter to be affixed to an item of clothing.

ChatGPT

  1. letterman

    A letterman is a high school or college student who has earned a varsity letter in a particular sport by participating in or achieving a certain level of performance or merit in that sport. The term can also refer to someone who is part of a group or team of high performers in other areas such as academia or arts, not just athletics. The achievement is traditionally marked by wearing of school's letter on a uniform jacket, known as a letterman jacket.

Wikidata

  1. Letterman

    A letterman, in U.S. sports, performing arts or academics, is a high school or college student who has met a specified level of participation or performance on a varsity athletic team, marching band, or in other performance school-sponsored activities. The Varsity Letter represents the activities one has done with varsity.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LETTERMAN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Letterman is ranked #35945 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Letterman surname appeared 624 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Letterman.

    92.1% or 575 total occurrences were White.
    2.8% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.2% or 8 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.8% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
    0.8% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of letterman in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of letterman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of letterman in a Sentence

  1. Joel McHale:

    So that was cool and that’s as far as it went with him, but when he left, things changed and they definitely had a different feeling, the next administration, the president said to my face, ‘Don’t make fun of the Kardashians. We don’t want you to make fun of the Kardashians anymore.’ So I was like, ‘oh this show is doomed,’ because that’s why the show worked, because we would make fun of ourselves. It’s like when Letterman made fun of GE in the’80s. You have to bite the hand that feeds you.

  2. Vince Vaughn:

    So when Todd Phillips wanted me for ‘Old School,’ the studio didn’t want me, they didn’t think I could do comedy! They said, ‘He’s a dramatic actor from smaller films.’ Todd really had to push for me; I think he even told them to watch me on Letterman, to see that I could be funny.

  3. Cate Meighan:

    I think that more than anything, Anne Hathaway is a real shape shifter in Anne Hathaway interviews, anne Hathaway caters Anne Hathaway personality to match whomever is interviewing Anne Hathaway, be it, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Letterman... I think people have watched Anne Hathaway, hoping to get to know who Anne Hathaway really is, and instead these moments on the couch feel more like another quick acting gig.

  4. David Letterman:

    But Letterman’s view of The Donald has since shifted dramatically. I can remember David Letterman doing an impression, behind a podium, of a reporter for The New York Times who has a congenital disorder. And then I thought, if this was somebody else — if this was a member of your family or a next-door neighbor, a guy at work — you would immediately distance yourself from that person. And that’s what I thought would happen.

  5. David Letterman:

    They have this moment where they put you, they handcuff you, they drug you, they put you on the bed, and they separate you from everyone you know, that's something that I am so happy that I experienced David Letterman so I can start by changing that moment.

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