letter opener

English

A letter-opener

Alternative forms

• letter-opener

Noun

letter opener (plural letter openers)

1. A knifelike device with a blunt edge, used for slicing letters open.

   Coordinate term: paperknife

Translations

knifelike device

• Afrikaans: briewemes
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: tallapapers m, obrecartes m
• Chinese: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: briefopener (nl) m
• Finnish: paperiveitsi (fi)
• French: coupe-papier (fr) m
• German: Brieföffner (de) m
• Greek: χαρτοκόπτης (el) m (chartokóptis)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: papírvágó kés, levélbontó kés
• Ido: paperokultelo (io)
• Irish: scian pháipéir f
• Italian: tagliacarte (it) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ноже за писма n (nože za pisma)
• Polish: nóż do otwierania listów m, nóż do otwierania kopert m
• Romanian: tăietor de hârtie n, deschizător de scrisori n
• Russian: нож для вскры́тия конве́ртов m (nož dlja vskrýtija konvértov), нож для вскры́тия пи́сем m (nož dlja vskrýtija písem), нож для конве́ртов m (nož dlja konvértov). нож для пи́сем m (nož dlja písem), разрезно́й но́жик m (razreznój nóžik)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: abrecartas (es) m
• Swedish: brevöppnare c, brevkniv (sv) c, papperskniv c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: zarf açacağı
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• letter opener on Wikipedia.Wikipedia