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Word: Alphabet
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 16th century: from late Latin alphabetum, from Greek alpha, bēta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈalfəbɛt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order used to represent the basic set of speech sounds of a language, especially the set of letters from A to Z
Short Definition:set of letters or symbols in fixed order used to represent basic set of speech sounds of language
Examples:- the first letter of the alphabet
- a phonetic alphabet
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