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data-snd="en/US/dy/dyd7dssssyd3stdnhn"></span><span class=snd2 data-snd="en/UK/dy/dyd7dssssyd3stdnhn"></span> <br>Also found in: <a href="//www.freethesaurus.com/Lettish">Thesaurus</a>, <a href="//encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Lettish">Encyclopedia</a>, <a href="//encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Lettish">Wikipedia</a>. <div id="MainTxt"> <div id="Definition"><section data-src="hm"><h2>Let·tish</h2> <span class="snd" data-snd="L0133000"></span> <span class="pron" onclick="pron_key()">(lĕt′ĭsh)</span><div class="pseg"><i>adj.</i><div class="ds-single"> Of or relating to the Letts or their language or culture.</div></div><div class="pseg"><i>n.</i><div class="ds-single"> See <a href="Latvian"> Latvian</a>.</div></div><div class="cprh"><span class="i A cpr"></span>American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.</div></section><section data-src="hc_dict"><h2>Lettish</h2> (<span onclick="pron_key(1)" class="pron">ˈlɛtɪʃ</span>) <div><i>n</i>, <i>adj</i><div class="ds-list"><b>1. </b> (Languages) another word for <a href="Latvian">Latvian</a></div><div class="ds-list"><b>2. </b> (Peoples) another word for <a href="Latvian">Latvian</a></div></div><div class="cprh"><span class="i A cpr"></span>Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014</div></section><section data-src="rHouse"><h2>Let•tish</h2> <span onclick="pron_key(1)" class="pron"> (ˈlɛt ɪʃ) </span> <br> <br> <i>adj. </i> <div class="ds-list"> <b> 1. </b> of or pertaining to the Latvians or their language. </div> <i>n. </i> <div class="ds-list"> <b> 2. </b> <a href="Latvian">Latvian (def. 2).</a> </div> <div class="etyseg">[1825–35]</div> <div class="cprh"><span class="i A cpr"></span>Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. 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(113) Stalin's work concluded categorically: One thing or the other: either the federalism of the Bund, in which case the Russian Social-Democratic Party must re-form itself on a basis of "demarcation" of the workers according to nationalities; or an international type of organization, in which case the Bund must reform itself on a basis of territorial autonomy after the pattern of the Caucasian, <span class=highlight>Lettish</span> and Polish Social-Democracies, and thus make possible the direct union of the Jewish workers with the workers of the other nationalities of Russia.<div class=lit_links><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+%22museum+of+bad+taste%22%3F%3A+the+Jewish+Labour+Bund+and+the+Bolshevik...-a0181462498">A "museum of bad taste"?: the Jewish Labour Bund and the Bolshevik position regarding the national question, 1903-14 (1)</a></div></DIV><DIV class=lit>(81) Azeri, Armenian, Belorussian, Estonian, Georgian, Jewish, Kirghiz, <span class=highlight>Lettish</span>, 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