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Alphabet

noun

A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language.

The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural). Synonyms: ABC, ABC's, ABCs, first principle, first rudiment, rudiment.

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"Alphabet" Quotes from Famous Books

... number of cards upon each of which appears a letter of the alphabet. The teacher holds up one of these letters so that it can be distinctly seen by the pupils. Number 1 of each aisle must name some article sold in a grocery store, beginning with the letter held up by the ...

— School, Church, and Home Games • George O. Draper

... according to the usual practice, by the words with which its second folio begins: and letters of tha alphabet are added, probably to indicate its place on the shelves of the Library. As a specimen, I shall give ...

— Notes & Queries, No. 6. Saturday, December 8, 1849 • Various

... was a master and there was a maid. We will call the master by the first letter of the alphabet—Mr. A. And we will call the maid by the ...

— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins

... is said, are anxious to have the letter h dropped from the French alphabet. As that contains no w, how, in the event of a new elision, will the Parisians, who are so fond of English words, manage ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 • Various

... conversation is aided, and often largely carried on, by signs made with the hands. Written language certainly developed from the use of pictures, which were gradually curtailed into HIEROGLYPHICS, such as were used by the ancient Egyptians, and finally developed into the ALPHABET, each letter of which was originally ...

— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

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