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aer·o·gram

also aer·o·gramme (âr′ə-grăm′)

An airmail letter in the form of a lightweight sheet of stationery that folds into its own envelope for mailing at a low postage rate. Also called air letter.

[aero- + (tele)gram.]

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aerogram

(ˈɛərəˌɡræm) or

aerogramme

1. Also called: air letter an airmail letter written on a single sheet of lightweight paper that folds and is sealed to form an envelope

2. (Telecommunications) another name for radiotelegram

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aer•o•gram

(ˈɛər əˌgræm)

n.

1. a radiogram.

2. Older Use. a message carried by aircraft; an airmail letter.

3. Also, aer′o•gramme`. air letter (def. 3).

[1895–1900]

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Noun

aerogram - a letter sent by air mail

aerogramme, air letter, airmail letter

letter, missive - a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"

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Aerogramm

aerogramma

aerogram

aerogramme [ˈɛərəʊgræm] N

1. (= air-letter) → aerograma m

2. (= radio message) → radiograma m

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In clear handwritten Hebrew on a blue Israeli aerogram dated May 4, 1980, he wrote, "We do not have any formal relations with the German state.

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As I was growing up, she told me this story as many times as she told me about her hot tears of love streaming onto my face, of writing on a tissue-thin Blue aerogram to her own mother continents away to say, I finally understand the way you love me.

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"Eugenides, who himself graduated from Brown in 1983, re-creates the feel of that pre-Internet, pre-cellphone time with vivid detail: the Plasmatics T-shirts, the toe socks, the crinkly pale-blue aerogram letters to and from friends traveling in Europe, the way everyone in the English department seems to be reading but possibly not understanding Derrida.

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He said this region delivered a record number of 254.394 million un-registered letters, aerogram, postcards, printed cards, newspapers, small packets during the last fiscal year.