alphabet

(noun, verb)

noun

1. a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language

Definition categories: communication, script

2. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)

Similar word(s): rudiments

Definition categories: thought, basics, bedrock, fundamentals

Sentences with alphabet as a noun:

- The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.

- In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.

- Let be a regular language over the alphabet .

verb

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