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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishalphabete, borrowed fromClassical Latinalphabētum, fromAncient Greekἀλφάβητος(alphábētos), fromἄλφα(álpha) andβῆτα(bêta), the names of the first two letters of theGreek alphabet,Α(A) andΒ(B), lowercase formsα andβ. The Greek names derived fromaleph, the name of thePhoenician letter𐤀(ʾ,“ox”) andbeth, the name of the letter𐤁(b,“house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs
F1
(𓃾) and
pr
(𓉐).

Doublet ofalfabeto.

Pronunciation

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  • (Western)IPA(key): /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/,(uncommon)/ˈæl.fə.bɪt/
  • (Indic)IPA(key): /ˈalfɑ.bɛʈ/,/ˈɑlfɑ.bɛʈ/,/əlˈfɑ.bɛʈ/("alpha-bet")
  • Hyphenation:al‧pha‧bet

Noun

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alphabet (pluralalphabets)

  1. The set ofletters used when writing in alanguage.
    The Greekalphabet has only twenty-four letters.
    In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite thealphabet.
  2. Awriting system in whichletters representphonemes.(Contrast e.g.logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, andsyllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
    1. Awriting system in which there areletters for theconsonantandvowelphonemes.(Contrast e.g.abjad.)
  3. (computer science) A typicallyfiniteset of distinguishablesymbols.
    LetL{\displaystyle L} be a regular language over thealphabetΣ{\displaystyle \Sigma }.
  4. (India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individualletter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
    • 2002, Eugene E. Dike,African myth of creation in African form of writing, Monsenstein und Vannerdat,→ISBN, page30:
      We realize the fact that thealphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
    • 2005, Satinder Bal Gupta,Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures, Laxmi Publications, page237:
      There are 26alphabets in English.
    • 2007, Elangovan,P, Singapore,→ISBN,→OCLC, page83:
      Tamilgot 247alphabets you know. Got two R-eh, got three L, got two N you know.
  5. Thesimplestrudiments;elements.
    • 1828,Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII, to the Death of George II, by Henry Hallam”, inThe Edinburgh Review, volume18:
      The veryalphabet of our law.
  6. (Internetslang, politics) An agent of theFBI, theCIA, or another such government agency.

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Translations

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an ordered set of letters used in a language
in computer science

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Verb

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alphabet (third-person singular simple presentalphabets,present participlealphabeting,simple past and past participlealphabeted)

  1. (rare) Todesignate by theletters of thealphabet; toarrange alphabetically.

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLate Latinalphabētum, fromAncient Greekἀλφάβητος(alphábētos), fromἄλφα(álpha) (Α,α) andβῆτα(bêta) (Β,β) (the first two letters of theGreek alphabet), fromPhoenicianaleph𐤀(ʾ,“ox”) andbeth𐤁(b,“house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs
F1
(𓃾) and
pr
(𓉐).

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Noun

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alphabet m (pluralalphabets)

  1. alphabet(set of letters considered as a group)

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Middle French

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Etymology

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FromLate Latinalphabētum, fromAncient Greekἀλφάβητος(alphábētos), fromἄλφα(álpha) (Α,α) andβῆτα(bêta) (Β,β) (the first two letters of theGreek alphabet), fromPhoenicianaleph𐤀(ʾ,“ox”) andbeth𐤁(b,“house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs
F1
(𓃾) and
pr
(𓉐).

Noun

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alphabet m (pluralalphabets)

  1. alphabet(set of letters considered as a group)
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