noun🔗ShareThe set of letters used when writing in a language."In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet."languagewritinglinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA 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.)"My daughter is learning the alphabet in school. "languagewritingcommunicationlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA typically finite set of distinguishable symbols."Let L be a regular language over the alphabet Sigma."languagewritingcommunicationsystemlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character."In the word "apple", the letter 'p' is an alphabet. "languagewritingcommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe simplest rudiments; elements."Understanding addition and subtraction is just learning the alphabet of mathematics. "languagewritingelementcommunicationeducationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically."The librarian will alphabet the new books before putting them on the shelf. "languagewritingcommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading