English > alphabet: 2 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language. |
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| Members | letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character | The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech |
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| Narrower | Arabic alphabet | The alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu) |
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| Armenian, Armenian alphabet | A writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written |
| Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic | An alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages) |
| Greek alphabet | The alphabet used by ancient Greeks |
| Hebrew alphabet, Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script | A Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino) |
| Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet | The alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe |
| manual alphabet, finger alphabet | An alphabet used by the deaf |
| phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet | An alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech |
| Broader | character set | An ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing |
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| script | A particular orthography or writing system |
| Spanish | abecedario, abecé, alfabeto |
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| Catalan | abecedari, alfabet |
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| Adjectives | alphabetic, alphabetical | relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet |
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| alphabetical | arranged in order according to the alphabet |
| analphabetic | relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic |
| Verbs | alphabetize, alphabetise | arrange in alphabetical order |
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| alphabetize | provide with an alphabet |
