ALL meanings of alphabet
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A a - countable noun alphabet An alphabet is a set of letters usually presented in a fixed order which is used for writing the words of a particular language or group of languages. 3
- noun alphabet a set of letters or other signs used in a writing system, usually arranged in a fixed order, each letter or sign being used to represent one or sometimes more than one phoneme in the language being transcribed 3
- noun alphabet any set of symbols or characters, esp one representing sounds of speech 3
- noun alphabet basic principles or rudiments, as of a subject 3
- noun alphabet the letters of a language, arranged in a traditional order 3
- noun alphabet a system of characters, signs, or symbols used to indicate letters or speech sounds 3
- noun alphabet the first elements or principles, as of a branch of knowledge 3
- noun alphabet A set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, used to represent the basic sounds of a language; in particular, the set of letters from A to Z. 1
- noun alphabet letters, characters of a language 1
- noun alphabet linguistics: system of symbols 1
- noun alphabet the letters of a language in their customary order. 1
- noun alphabet any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 1
- noun alphabet any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic alphabet. 1
- noun alphabet first elements; basic facts; simplest rudiments: the alphabet of genetics. 1
- noun alphabet the alphabet, a system of writing, developed in the ancient Near East and transmitted from the northwest Semites to the Greeks, in which each symbol ideally represents one sound unit in the spoken language, and from which most alphabetical scripts are derived. 1
- noun alphabet The set of letters used when writing in a language. 0
- noun alphabet A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.). 0
- noun alphabet (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols. 0
- noun alphabet (India) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character. 0
- noun alphabet The simplest rudiments; elements. 0
- verb alphabet To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. 0