alphabet
/ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/ sustantivo B1En español: alfabeto, abecedario
- The set of letters used when writing in a language. · The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.· In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
- 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.)
- A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols. · Let L be a regular language over the alphabet #92;Sigma.
- The simplest rudiments; elements.
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Plural alphabets
De la biblioteca
She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N.
Valentine named all the letters of the alphabet until she came to W.
She pointed to each letter of the alphabet.
Franz took it with a nervous trembling, and repeated the letters of the alphabet successively, until he came to M.
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