Alphabet Definition
ălfə-bĕt, -bĭt
noun
The letters of a language, arranged in the order fixed by custom.
American Heritage
The letters of a language, arranged in a traditional order.
Webster's New World
A system of characters or symbols representing sounds or things.
American Heritage
A system of characters, signs, or symbols used to indicate letters or speech sounds.
Webster's New World
A set of basic parts or elements.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- depictment
- ita
- picturization
- imaging
- abc
- first-principle
- first rudiment
- rudiment
- abcs
- typeface
- rudiments
- roman
- romaji
- primer
- pictography
verb
Synonyms:
Other Word Forms of Alphabet
Noun
Singular:
alphabet
Plural:
alphabetsOrigin of Alphabet
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From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, ἄλφα (alpha) (Α,α) and βῆτα (bēta) (Β,β), from Phoenician aleph and beth (“house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English alphabete from Latin alphabētum from Greek alphabētos alpha alpha alpha bēta beta beta
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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