alphabet
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alphabet/ˈalfəbet/
▶noun a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order used to represent the basic set of speech sounds of a language.
– derivatives
alphabetization (or alphabetisation) noun,
alphabetize (or alphabetise) verb.
alphabetization (or alphabetisation) noun,
alphabetize (or alphabetise) verb.
– origin C16: from late L. alphabetum, from Gk alpha, bēta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.
'alphabet' also found in these Oxford entries:
A
- ABC
- agma
- aleph
- allograph
- alpha
- alphabetical
- alphabet soup
- ash
- B
- beta
- C
- capital
- case
- chi
- criss-cross
- Croatian
- Cyrillic
- D
- delta
- Devanagari
- digamma
- E
- engram
- epsilon
- eta
- Etruscan
- F
- finger alphabet
- futhark
- G
- gamma
- Glagolitic
- -gram
- grammatical
- H
- hornbook
- I
- International Phonetic Alphabet
- iota
- IPA
- ITA
- J
- jot
- K
- kappa
- Kufic
- L
- lambda
