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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alphabet \Al"pha*bet\, verb (used with an object) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [R.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alphabet \Al"pha*bet\, noun [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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
alphabet
noun
1: a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
2: the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry" [syn: {rudiment}, {first rudiment}, {first principle}, {ABC}, {ABC's}, {ABCs}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "alphabet": IPA, ITA, Initial Teaching Alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, alphabetics, art, basics, beginning, blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, commencement, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama, drawing, elements, exemplification, figuration, first principles, first steps, fundamentals, futhark, grammar, graphemics, hieroglyphic, hornbook, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, induction, letter, letters, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, outlines, outset, paleography, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, primer, principia, principles, printing, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, rudiments, runic alphabet, schema, score, script, start, syllabary, symbol, tablature, writing, writing system
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