Definition of Alphabet. Meaning of Alphabet. Synonyms of Alphabet

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Definition of Alphabet

Alphabet
Alphabet Al"pha*bet, n. [L. alphabetum, fr. Gr. ? + ?, the first two Greek letters; Heb. [=a]leph and beth: cf. F. alphabet.] 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.
Alphabet
Alphabet Al"pha*bet, v. t. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [R.]

Meaning of Alphabet from wikipedia

- An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all...
- The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language and its extensions...
- The Gr**** alphabet has been used to write the Gr**** language since the late ninth or early eighth century BC. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician...
- Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on...
- The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי‎, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block...
- Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, NATO spelling alphabet, ICAO phonetic alphabet or ICAO spelling alphabet, is the most...
- The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International...
- The Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet (more specifically, an abjad) known in modern times from the Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the...
- The Turkish alphabet (Turkish: Türk alfabesi) is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which...
- The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة‎, al-abjadīyah l-ʿarabīyah or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf l-ʿarabīyah, IPA: [ʔalʔabd͡ʒadiːjaʰ...
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