alphabet
noun
the letters of a language in their customary order.
alphabets
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pluralof alphabet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The database includes misspellings, mixed alphabets, and coded inscriptions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
We were born with the language to play and be curious before we even understood letters and alphabets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
So the Shakespeare skeptics were convinced that by looking closely at the letters used to spell each word in Shakespeare’s works, they could make out two different alphabets and uncover a code from Francis Bacon.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
Restricting signs to those for single consonants was only the first of three crucial innovations that distinguished alphabets from other writing systems.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
