alphabet
Noun
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A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language (synset 106509450)
is a type of:
- script - a particular orthography or writing system
- character set - an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing
subtypes:- armenian, armenian alphabet - a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written
- latin alphabet, roman alphabet - the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
- hebraic alphabet, hebrew alphabet, hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
- greek alphabet - the alphabet used by ancient Greeks
- cyrillic, cyrillic alphabet - an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)
- arabic alphabet - the alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu)
- phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet - an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
- finger alphabet, manual alphabet - an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions
member holonym: alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech -
The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) (synset 105881364)
"he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"domain usage: plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than oneis a type of: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle, fundamentals - principles from which other truths can be derived
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