Alphabet vs. Abecedary

Alphabetnoun

The set of letters used when writing in a language.

Alphabetnoun

A 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.

Alphabetnoun

A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. Contrast e.g. abjad.

Alphabetnoun

(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

Alphabetnoun

An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.

Alphabetnoun

The simplest rudiments; elements.

Alphabetverb

(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Alphabetnoun

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

Alphabetnoun

The simplest rudiments; elements.

Alphabetverb

To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Alphabetnoun

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

Alphabetnoun

the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural);

Alphabet

An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, for instance, and logographic systems use characters to represent words, morphemes, or other semantic units.The first fully phonemic script, the Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is considered to be the first alphabet, and is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic.

Abecedarynoun

(rare) The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium.

Abecedarynoun

One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian.

Abecedaryadjective

Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian.

Abecedarynoun

A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.

Abecedaryadjective

alphabetical. Also, of a poem, etc.: that has each verse or line beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order.