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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: go?o'g?l, IPA^(key): /??u???l/
• Homophones: Google, googol, gugel

Etymology 1

From googly.

Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

1. (intransitive, cricket) To deliver googlies.
2. (intransitive, cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.

Etymology 2

From Google.

Alternative forms

• Google

Noun

google (plural googles)

1. (Internet, informal) An Internet search, such as those performed on the Google search engine.
2. (Internet, informal) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.

Derived terms

Related terms

• googol

Translations

Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

1. (transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
2. (transitive, by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.

3. (intransitive, Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Numeral

google

1. Misspelling of googol.

Danish

Etymology

From Google, from English google (the verb).

Verb

google

1. to google; to search on an Internet search engine, especially Google

Conjugation

References

• “google” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Verb

google

1. first-person singular present indicative of googlen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of googlen
3. imperative of googlen

French

Verb

google

1. inflection of googler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

google

1. inflection of googeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

google (present tense googlar, past tense googla, past participle googla, passive infinitive googlast, present participle googlande, imperative googl)

1. Alternative form of googla

Portuguese

Verb

google

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of googlar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of googlar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of googlar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of googlar

English

Etymology

Doublet of alfabeto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl.f?.b?t/
• (uncommon) IPA^(key): /?æl.f?.b?t/
• Hyphenation: al?pha?bet

Noun

alphabet (plural alphabets)

1. The set of letters used when writing in a language.

2. A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
   1. A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
3. (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

4. (India, Hong Kong, Singapore) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
5. The simplest rudiments; elements.

Synonyms

• ABC, absey

Hypernyms

• (linguistics): signary

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Verb

alphabet (third-person singular simple present alphabets, present participle alphabeting, simple past and past participle alphabeted)

1. (rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Synonyms

• alphabetize

Further reading

• alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.fa.b?/
• Rhymes: -?
• Homophone: alphabets

Noun

alphabet m (plural alphabets)

1. alphabet (set of letters considered as a group)

Derived terms

• alphabet latin
• alphabet phonétique international

Related terms

• alphabète
• alphabétique
• alphabétiquement
• inalphabète

Further reading

• “alphabet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Noun

alphabet m (plural alphabets)

1. alphabet (set of letters considered as a group)