alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/
ipa: /ˈæl.fə.bɪt/
note: "alpha-bet"
ipa: /ˈalfɑ.bɛʈ/
note: "alpha-bet"
ipa: /ˈɑlfɑ.bɛʈ/
note: "alpha-bet"
ipa: /əlˈfɑ.bɛʈ/
Forms: form: alphabets
Etymology: From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Classical Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “ox”) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (b, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs F1 (𓃾) and pr (𓉐).
 Doublet of alfabeto.
Senses: examples: text: The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
text: In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
glosses: The set of letters used when writing in a language.
glosses: 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.)
glosses: 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.)
A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
examples: text: Let L be a regular language over the alphabet #92;Sigma.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
examples: text: We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
ref: 2002, Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing, Monsenstein und Vannerdat, →ISBN, page 30:
text: There are 26 alphabets in English.
ref: 2005, Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures, Laxmi Publications, page 237:
text: Tamil got 247 alphabets you know. Got two R-eh, got three L, got two N you know.
ref: 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
examples: text: The very alphabet of our law.
ref: 1828, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII, to the Death of George II, by Henry Hallam”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 18:
glosses: The simplest rudiments; elements.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
Synonyms: ABC
absey
Hypernyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: signary
Derived terms: word: alphabetarian
word: alphabeted
word: alphabetic(-al) → alphabetically
word: multi-
word: poly-
word: prealphabetic
word: alphabetiform
word: alphabetism
word: alphabetitis
word: alphabetize
word: -ise
word: alphabetlike
word: alphametic
alt: by clipping
word: alphanumeric(-al)
word: alphasort
word: ARPAbet
word: multialphabet
word: prealphabet
word: semi-alphabet
word: unalphabeted
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: A
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: r
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: a
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: b
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: i
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: c
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: l
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: p
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: h
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: e
qualifier: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
sense: Expressions with language/script names; redirecting to Arabic script
word: t
sense: Expressions with language/script names
word: Bengali alphabet
sense: Expressions with language/script names
english: redirecting to Cyrillic
translation: redirecting to Cyrillic
word: Cyrillic alphabet
sense: Expressions with language/script names
word: Devanagari alphabet
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word: Glagolitic alphabet
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word: Gothic alphabet
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word: Greek alphabet
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word: international phonetic alphabet
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word: Latin alphabet
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word: Lorm alphabet
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word: Morse alphabet
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word: Proto-Canaanite alphabet
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word: Roman alphabet
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word: Shaw alphabet
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word: alphabet agency
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word: alphabet block
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word: alphabet book
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word: alphabet boy
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word: alphabet brick
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word: alphabet mafia
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word: alphabet of desire
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word: alphabet oracle
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word: alphabet soup
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word: Euclidean alphabet
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word: finger alphabet
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: F
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: r
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: a
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: s
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: e
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: l
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: p
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: h
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: b
raw_tags: of Fraser script
qualifier: Expressions with other terms
sense: Expressions with other terms; synonym of Fraser script
word: t
raw_tags: of Fraser script
sense: Expressions with other terms
word: hand alphabet
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word: ICAO spelling alphabet
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word: International Phonetic Alphabet
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word: manual alphabet
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word: mixed alphabet
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word: movable alphabet
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word: moveable alphabet
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word: NATO phonetic alphabet
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word: phonetic alphabet
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word: phonetic spelling alphabet
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word: radio alphabet
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word: Raguileo alphabet
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word: Shavian alphabet
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word: spelling alphabet
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word: telephone alphabet
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word: Theban alphabet
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word: voice procedure alphabet
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word: weighted alphabet
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word: word-spelling alphabet
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word: Zhuyin alphabet
Related terms: word: alphabetary
word: alphabetician
word: analphabet
word: abecedary
word: abjad
word: abugida
word: orthography
word: script
word: syllabary
word: writing system