Abecedarian

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who teaches or studies the alphabet.
  • n. One who is just learning; a beginner.
  • adj. Having to do with the alphabet.
  • adj. Being arranged alphabetically.
  • adj. Elementary or rudimentary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
  • adj. Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
  • n. One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
  • adj. Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or formed by the letters of the alphabet.
  • Pertaining to the learning of the alphabet, or to one engaged in learning it; hence, relating to the first steps in learning.
  • Another form is abecedary.
  • n. One who teaches or learns the letters of the alphabet.
  • n. [capitalized] A follower of Nicolas Storch, an Anabaptist of Germany, in the sixteenth century.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
  • n. a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
  • adj. alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
  • Equivalent
    alphabetic    alphabetical    abecedary    hymns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    novice    tiro    initiate    tyro    beginner   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    alphabetic    beginner