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Another word for alphabet

NOUN

  1. Linguistic symbols

    See also:

    letter

  2. Elements

    See also:

    elements

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Sentence Examples

  • Soon after the dialect had reached its latest form, the Latin alphabet was adopted.

  • She taught the young people the alphabet, and several of them learned to talk with her.

  • She has learned that EVERYTHING HAS A NAME, AND THAT THE MANUAL ALPHABET IS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING SHE WANTS TO KNOW.

  • In Greek, where I is the twentieth letter of the alphabet, or, if the merely numerical and p are excluded, the eighteenth, another form 1 or S according to the direction of the writing is also widespread.

  • The French alphabet, written out with the same numerical values as the Hebrew, in which the first nine letters denote units and the others tens, will have the following significance:

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