phonetic alphabet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of phonetic alphabet
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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They say they have found four basic components they think make up this phonetic alphabet.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024
Just type “ICS” in the search function to read about the ways signals can be sent, and to see flag images, their meanings, associated letters and phonetic alphabet letters.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022
The phrase comes from the military phonetic alphabet; it is not slang.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2016
Other peoples provided the Greeks with crucial technological advances; they learned the phonetic alphabet from the Phoenicians, and how to mint coins from the Lydians.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2015
They were a maritime nation and scattered their alphabet wherever they sailed, so that some kind of phonetic alphabet finally existed throughout the civilized world.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
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