alphabet[noun]Synonyms: ABC(s), christcross-row, letters, ABC's, elements, fundamentals, grammar, principles, rudiments
Contrasted words: entirety, total, whole, details, minutiae, trivia
Related Idioms: first steps
Related Words: beginning,
commencement,
start,
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al‧pha‧bet /ˈælfəbet/
noun [countable][
Date: 1500-1600;
Language: Late Latin;
Origin: alphabetum, from Greek, from alpha ( ⇒ alpha) + beta (, beta)]
a set of letters, arranged in a particular order, and used in writing
the Greek/Roman etc alphabet
the international phonetic alphabet [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲