Phrase guide
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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.
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noun
A system for writing one or more languages; a particular alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, or other scheme. For example, the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
The basic type of a system for writing languages. For example, alphabetic writing or logographic writing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: orthography
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writing
Narrower terms: script, spelling, picture writing, alphabetic writing, alphabetic script, boustrophedon, ideography, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, point system, Linear A
History
From writing + system.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
