fan letter
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- noun
- /fæn ˈlɛtər/
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carta de fans
- After the concert, I decided to write a fan letter to my favorite band expressing my admiration.
And I wanted to kick it off by bequeathing you with your first fan letter.
- And I wanted to kick it off by bequeathing you with your first fan letter.
Examples
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Every week, the actress receives dozens of fan letters from her devoted fans.
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I got fan letters from all over the world.
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And then I get a fan letter.
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I got a fan letter from a young lady.
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This is actually a fan letter.
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He once wrote me a fan letter.
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Let's open one of Caprice's fan letters.
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She gets over 400 fan letters a week, three proposals of marriage.
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"Dear Gus, this is the first fan letter I've ever written.
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When the advertisement first appeared in the 1920s, within one month the model in Leyendecker's drawing received 17,000 fan letters, including several offers of marriage!
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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Letters or messages people send to a celebrity to show they like them
How Personal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a letter written by an admirer' is directly and transparently derived from 'fan' (an admirer) + 'letter' (a written message); there is no idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows a straightforward noun-noun modifier structure, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Fan letter comes from the simple picture of a fan (an 'admirer') writing a letter to a favorite singer or actor to say how much they like the person's work. So, it now means 'a letter written by an admirer' to show praise or support.