alphabet
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fəˌbɛt, -bɪt noun
1.
the letters of a language in their customary order.
2.
any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the greek alphabet.
3.
any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic alphabet.
4.
first elements; basic facts; simplest rudiments: the alphabet of genetics.
5.
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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | 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 |
| 2. | any set of symbols or characters, esp one representing sounds of speech |
| 3. | basic principles or rudiments, as of a subject |
| [C15: from Late Latin alphabētum, from Greek alphabētos, from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet; see | |
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Word Origin & History
alphabet
1560s (implied in alphabetical), from L.L. alphabetum (Tertullian), from Gk. alphabetos, from alpha + beta, the first two letters of it, from Heb.-Phoen. aleph, pausal form of eleph "ox" + beth, lit. "house;" the letters so called because their shapes resembled or represented those objects. The Greeks
added -a to the end of many Heb.-Phoenician letter names because Gk. words cannot end in most consonants. Alphabet soup first attested 1907.
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Example sentences
It comes with a stylus for tapping on the screen and writing notes in the modified alphabet that the device requires you to use.
Addresses starting with letters at the beginning of the alphabet get more spam.
At the time they were inscribed, the alphabet was so novel that the authors struggled to shape their letters.
To practice the alphabet and vocabulary, you can ask them to think of words that start with specific letters.
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