alphabet : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a confusing assortment
  
  • Roosevelt created an alphabet soup of federal agencies
• noun soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet
  

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• noun the alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu)
  

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• noun a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written
  Armenian.
  

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• noun an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)
  Cyrillic.
  

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• . See Dactylology.

Webster 1913

• a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial.

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• noun an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions
  finger alphabet.
  

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• . See Dactylology.

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• noun the alphabet used by ancient Greeks
  

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• noun a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
  Hebrew script; Hebraic alphabet.
  

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• noun a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
  Hebrew script; Hebraic alphabet.
  

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• noun the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
  Latin alphabet.
  

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• noun the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
  alphabetic character; letter.
  
  • his grandmother taught him his letters

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• the ancient alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscript of Italy.

Webster 1913

• noun an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions
  finger alphabet.
  

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• . See Dactylology.

Webster 1913

Morse" al"pha*bet

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1. A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), -... (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), ... (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them.

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• noun an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
  phonetic alphabet.
  

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• noun the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
  Latin alphabet.
  

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• noun an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
  phonetic alphabet.
  

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