Definition of Alphabets. Meaning of Alphabets. Synonyms of Alphabets

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Definition of Alphabets

Alphabet
Alphabet Al"pha*bet, n. [L. alphabetum, fr. Gr. ? + ?, the first two Greek letters; Heb. [=a]leph and beth: cf. F. alphabet.] 1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. --Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.
Alphabet
Alphabet Al"pha*bet, v. t. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [R.]

Meaning of Alphabets from wikipedia

- of the Old Italic alphabets. Elder ****hark gave rise to other alphabets known collectively as the Runic alphabets. The Runic alphabets were used for Germanic...
- of phonetic symbols. Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and...
- derived from one of these alphabets by the 2nd century AD. The Old Italic alphabets ultimately derive from the Phoenician alphabet, but the general consensus...
- common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet. These Latin-script alphabets may discard letters...
- Encyclopædia Britannica, Major alphabets of the world, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, 2008, O.Ed. "The two early Slavic alphabets, the Cyrillic and the Glagolitic...
- which is used for Roman letters. Spelling alphabets also exist for Gr**** and for Russian. Spelling alphabets are called by various names, according to...
- local alphabets across the Gr****-speaking world to become the standard form of the Gr**** alphabet. When the Gr****s adopted the Phoenician alphabet, they...
- The Kyrgyz alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Kyrgyz language. Kyrgyz uses the following alphabets: The Cyrillic script is officially used in...
- Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets prescribed the words that are used to represent each letter of the alphabet, when spelling other words out loud...
- Phoenician alphabet, with the exception of the letter Samekh, whose Gr**** counterpart Xi (Ξ) was used only in a subgroup of Gr**** alphabets, and with the...