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▸ noun: A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
▸ noun: A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
▸ noun: (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
▸ noun: (India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
▸ noun: The simplest rudiments; elements.
▸ noun: (Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
▸ verb: (rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
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letterset,
alpha,
spelling alphabet,
letter,
alphagram,
phonetic spelling alphabet,
phonetic alphabet,
literation,
ABCs,
alphabetism,
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