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Alphabet

noun

A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language.

The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural). Synonyms: ABC, ABC's, ABCs, first principle, first rudiment, rudiment.

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"Alphabet" Quotes from Famous Books

... Miss Phillips again. "Come to order! We shall now review our semaphore alphabet. Lineup! ...

— The Girl Scouts' Good Turn • Edith Lavell

... of his mother, sent him to "Hammenotia School" in Oxford University, which he attended for four and a half years, received his diploma, and was transferred to Cambridge College. Here he attended for four years. At the former school he learned the alphabet, went up to the seventh grade, learned some medicine about herbs, etc. "I learned some medicine, not all of it. I didn't practice it much; just practiced it enough to do the country good. At that time we didn't have any doctors." At Cambridge he learned "The Reigning of the Thornes", or the laws ...

— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck

... them, line by line, each Sabbath for the others to memorize. To make this task of memorization easier many of the Jewish hymns were written in acrostic form—that is, each line or stanza began with a different letter in the order of the Hebrew alphabet. ...

— Hebrew Life and Times • Harold B. Hunting

... his eyebrows as she entered the room, 'here's our little monitor—(or is it monitress, eh, Priscilla?)—back again. Children, we shall all have to mind our p's and q's—and, indeed, our entire alphabet, now!' ...

— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey

... ordinary one-hand alphabet, the only one commonly used by deaf mutes, there are five others. One of these is the two-hand alphabet, sometimes used by hearing children at school. It is clumsy and inconvenient, however. A second is made by the arms alone. Still a third is formed by means of the body and arms also, in ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

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