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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The letters of a language, arranged in the order fixed by custom.
  • n. A system of characters or symbols representing sounds or things.
  • n. A set of basic parts or elements: "genetic markers . . . that contain repeated sequences of the DNA alphabet” ( Sandra Blakeslee).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The set of letters used when writing in a language.
  • n. 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.)
  • n. A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
  • n. One particular letter used in writing a language.
  • v. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
  • n. The simplest rudiments; elements.
  • v. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or characters which form the elements of written language. See the articles on the different letters, A, B, C, etc.
  • n. Any series of characters intended to be used in writing instead of the usual letters, as the series of dashes, dots, etc., used in the transmission of telegraphic messages.
  • n. First elements; simplest rudiments: as, not to know the alphabet of a science.
  • To arrange in the order of an alphabet; mark by the letters of the alphabet.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
  • n. a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
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