alphabet

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noun

Plural noun:

alphabets

1.
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.
2.
A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
3.
(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
Let L be a regular language over the alphabet #92;Sigma.
4.
(Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, dialectal, nonstandard)An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
The notes are named with the first seven alphabets.
5.
The simplest rudiments; elements.
6.
(Internet)(Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.

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verb

V_es/s

alphabets

V_ing/Gerund

alphabeting

V_ed/pp

alphabeted

1.
(rare)To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

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From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος, from ἄλφα and βῆτα, the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α and Β, lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the - letter 𐤀 (ox) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (house), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyp…