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alphabet (enc)

Alphabet

Noun1.alphabet - a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
script - a particular orthography or writing system
Armenian alphabet, Armenian - a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written
character set - an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing
Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet - the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
Greek alphabet - the alphabet used by ancient Greeks
Cyrillic, Cyrillic alphabet - an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages
Arabic alphabet - the alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu)
phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet - an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
finger alphabet, manual alphabet - an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions
alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
2.alphabet - the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
basic principle, fundamental principle, fundamentals, basics, bedrock - principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics"
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

 

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