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alphabetal‧pha‧bet /ˈælfəbet/ ●●● W3 noun [countable] alphabetOrigin: 1500-1600 Late Latin alphabetum, from Greek, from alpha ( ➔ ALPHA) + beta ( ➔ BETA) - Alphabetic systems possess an inventory of symbols, called an alphabet, to represent the individual phonemes.
- And then we all gave thanks that there are only 26 letters in the alphabet.
- Look at the alphabet semaphore chart to find out where to place your flags.
- Robert Woods adopts a new approach to teaching the alphabet.
- The famous alphabet length below Nellies Beck saw most of the action producing five of the top six weights.
- The initials of businesses speed through an alphabet soup at mind-numbing speed.
- The kine is analogous to a letter in the verbal alphabet.
- The new bureaucracy of alphabet soup agencies was in harness.
► Letters & punctuationA, nounABC, nounalpha, nounalphabet, nounalphabetical, adjectiveampersand, nounapostrophe, nounasterisk, nounB, nounbeta, nounblock capitals, nounblock letters, nounbrace, nounbracket, nounbracket, verbC, nouncapital, nouncapital, adjectivecapitalize, verbcaps, cedilla, nouncircumflex, nounclause, nouncolon, nouncomma, nounconsonant, nounCyrillic, adjectiveD, noundash, noundelta, noundiacritic, nounditto, nounE, nounexclamation mark, nounF, nounG, noungamma, nounGothic, adjectivegrave, adjectiveH, nounhyphen, nounI, nounIPA, nounJ, nounK, nounL, nounletter, nounlower case, nounM, nounN, nounNHS, the, O, nounoblique, nounomega, nounP, nounparenthesis, nounperiod, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounpunctuation mark, nounQ, nounquestion mark, nounquestion tag, nounquotation mark, nounR, nounrune, nounS, nounschwa, nounscript, nounsemicolon, nounslash, nounsmall, adjectivespeech marks, nounsquare bracket, nounstar, nounstenography, nounstress mark, nounT, nountilde, nounU, nounumlaut, nounupper case, nounV, nounvowel, nounW, nounX, nounY, nounZ, nounzed, noun ► the Greek/Roman etc alphabet the international phonetic alphabet NOUN► soup· The miscellany of different loans make up an alphabet soup of SALs, SECALs and ESAFs.· The initials of businesses speed through an alphabet soup at mind-numbing speed.· Alongside the current assessment revolution are equally radical curriculum initiatives associated with a whole alphabet soup of acronyms.· The new bureaucracy of alphabet soup agencies was in harness.· Television stations were initially pleased by this alphabet soup. VERB► use· Oh alright, let's use the plain old alphabet one more time.· At the same time, writing became more widespread, mainly using a simplified alphabet of only forty-seven syllables. a set of letters, arranged in a particular order, and used in writingthe Greek/Roman etc alphabet the international phonetic alphabet |