Definition of Alphabet

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Alphabet

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

The simplest rudiments; elements.

To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

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Alphabet Quotations

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
Giorgio Armani

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
Tre Cool

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
William Gibson

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!
Graham Nelson

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
Alexander Kluge

Alphabet Translations

alphabet in Afrikaans is alfabet
alphabet in Danish is alfabet
alphabet in Dutch is alfabet, ABC, eerste beginselen
alphabet in French is alphabet
alphabet in German is Alphabet {n}
alphabet in Italian is alfabeto
alphabet in Portuguese is alfabeto
alphabet in Swedish is alfabet

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