alphabet

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: alphabet

1	n	a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
2	n	the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: alphabet

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; Armenian, Armenian alphabet
a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written; 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 derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other 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; visible speech
a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century

Type of:: script
a particular orthography or writing system; character set
an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing

Type of:: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle, fundamentals
principles from which other truths can be derived

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