Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: alphabetical
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
arranged in order according to the alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: alphabetical
Antonyms: analphabetic
adjective
relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: alphabetical
Antonyms: analphabetic
History
Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.
