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Letter of the alphabet   /lˈɛtər əv ðə ˈælfəbˌɛt/   Listen
Letter of the alphabet

noun
1.
The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech.  Synonyms: alphabetic character, letter.






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"Letter of the alphabet" Quotes from Famous Books



... come to the front and stand holding the cards in front of them, in correct order. The side spelling the word correctly first scores a point. Team scoring most points wins. (It is advisable to have one letter of the alphabet on one side of the card and a different ...
— Games and Play for School Morale - A Course of Graded Games for School and Community Recreation • Various

... who was a member of every learned society in England. The only letter of the alphabet he did not have after his name was "I," and that was because he did not happen to have been born in Indiana. Had that accident happened to him, even the Indiana Society would have given him a place ...
— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett

... page for each letter of the alphabet to be filled with pictures and names of objects having the ...
— Primary Handwork • Ella Victoria Dobbs

... that grew until I saw clearly as in the morning sun the glade of a forest through which a brook rippled. A sad-faced woman sat on a stone by the side of the streamlet; her gray garments set off the strange ornament in the fashion of a single letter of the alphabet that was embroidered in gold and in scarlet over her heart. Visible at some distance was a little girl, like a bright-apparelled vision, in a sunbeam, which fell down upon her through an arch of boughs. The ray quivered to and fro, making her figure dim or distinct, now like a real child, now ...
— Tales of Fantasy and Fact • Brander Matthews

... complete letter that he is writing himself. On an ordinary table there is fixed vertically a square board in which is inserted a pane of glass. To this glass are glued strips of tinfoil cut out in such a way that the spark shall be visible. Each strip is designated by a letter of the alphabet, and from each of them starts a long wire. These wires are inclosed in glass tubes which pass underground and run to the place whither the dispatch is to be transmitted. The extremities of the wires reach a similar ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various



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