A (English, character)
Pronunciation: tags: General-American
Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /eɪ̯/
tags: General-Australian
ipa: /æɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /eː/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: From Middle English and Old English upper case letter A and split of Middle English and Old English upper case letter Æ.
* The Old English letters A and Æ replaced the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letters ᚪ (a, “āc”) and ᚫ (æ, “æsc”), derived from the Runic letter ᚫ (a, “Ansuz”), in the 7th century.
Definitions: examples: text: Apple starts with A.
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text: Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
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glosses: The first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
tags: letter
uppercase
Forms: form: a
tags: lowercase
form: As
tags: plural
form: A's
tags: plural
form: ·
tags: alternative
Derived terms: A-back
A factor
A formation
A-League
A-Log
antihemophilic factor A
A number
A number 1
cluster A personality disorder
diptoindonesin A
double-A
Exhibit A
Generation A
List A
Mode A
P-A
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Série A
triple-A
Related terms: word: A-frame
word: ABC
word: A.B.C.
word: A to Z
word: A wave
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: letter
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: A
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: a
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: B
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: b
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: C
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: c
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: D
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: d
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: E
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: e
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: F
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: f
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: G
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: g
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: H
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: h
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: I
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: i
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: J
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: j
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: K
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: k
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: L
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: l
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: M
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: m
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: N
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: n
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: O
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: o
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: P
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: p
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: Q
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: q
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: R
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: r
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: S
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: s
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: T
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: t
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: U
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: u
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: V
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: v
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: W
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: w
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: X
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: x
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: Y
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: y
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: Z
tags: Latin
character
letter
word: z