Meaning

3 senses
  1. (formal)A written message; a letter, note or memo.

    Sendschreiben, Schrieb, Schreiben

    посла́ниеposlánije, письмоpisʹmo

    посла́нняposlánnja

    a written message addressed to a person or organization

  2. (in the plural)Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.

  3. (obsolete)One who is sent; a messenger.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. His latest missive hasn't arrived yet.

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  2. The general's missive ordered the troops to retreat before dawn.

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  3. The queen sent a sealed missive to her allies across the sea.

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  4. I'll bring him up in the missive I'll address to her.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a written message:
Русский
By meaning 1
a written message:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a written message:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).

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Forms

plural: missives
Singularmissive
Pluralmissives

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a written message addressed to a person or organization:letter

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
missive — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto