alphabet : Idioms & Phrases


alphabet soup

  • 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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arabic alphabet

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

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

  • 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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Deaf and dumb alphabet

  • . See Dactylology.
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Demotic alphabetcharacter

  • 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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Finger alphabet

  • 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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greek alphabet

  • noun the alphabet used by ancient Greeks
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hebraic alphabet

  • 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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hebrew alphabet

  • 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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latin alphabet

  • 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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letter of the alphabet

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

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

  • 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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morse alphabet

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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phonetic alphabet

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

  • 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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sound alphabet

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