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Definition of Alphabet

1. Noun. A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language.

2. Noun. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural). "He mastered only the rudiments of geometry"

Definition of Alphabet

1. n. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

2. v. t. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Definition of Alphabet

1. Noun. The set of letters used when writing in a language. ¹

2. Noun. (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols. ¹

3. Noun. (India) One particular letter used in writing a language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alphabet

1. to arrange in the customary order of the letters of a language [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Alphabet

1. 1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. "The very alphabet of our law." (Macaulay) Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology. Origin: L. Alphabetum, fr. Gr. +, the first two Greek letters; Heb. Aleph and beth: cf. F. Alphabet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alphabet

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alpha version alpha viruses alpha wave alpha waves alphabet (current term) alphabet soup alphabetarian alphabetarians alphabeted alphabetic

alphabetic character alphabetic script alphabetic writing alphabetical alphabetical order alphabetical orders alphabeticalism alphabetically alphabetick

Literary usage of Alphabet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Thus the Chinese characters, which are partly ideographic, partly phonetic, are called the Chinese alphabet. This term, formed from the names of the first ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"According to this view the alphabet was borrowed by the Phoenicians from the cursive (hieratic) form of Egyptian hieroglyphics. ..."

3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"In the sixth century we hear of geographers, chroniclers, genealogists, legislators, and of schools for teaching the alphabet (Herod, vi. ..."

4. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"Introduction of the Sclavonian alphabet into ... The greater part of the characters were the capitals of the Greek alphabet, ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"LANDA'S alphabet.—The story of the Abbe Brasseur de Bour- bourg and his discovery of the Landa alphabet in the archives of the Royal Academy of Madrid in a ..."

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