Alphabet
WordNet
noun
(1) The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
"He mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
(2) A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
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Etymology
From < , from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, (Α) and (Β), from Phoenician and , so called because they were pictograms of those objects.
Noun
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
- In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
- A, normally finite, set of distinguishable symbols.
- Let be a regular language over the alphabet .
See also
- syllabary
- writing system
- Appendix:Hebrew alphabet