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numbers
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?mb?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?mb?z/
- Hyphenation: num?bers
Noun
numbers
- plural of number
Noun
numbers pl (plural only)
- Many individuals as a group.
- Numbers of people have visited the fair.
Quotations
- 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 50
- Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents. Numbers would subdue even magic.
Verb
numbers
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of number
Anagrams
- numbres, renumbs
numbers From the web:
- what numbers are prime
- what numbers are composite
- what numbers are perfect squares
- what numbers are divisible by 3
- what numbers are recyclable
- what numbers are irrational
- what numbers are integers
- what numbers are odd
alphabet
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)
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- 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.)
- A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
- (India, Hong Kong, Singapore) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- alphabet (set of letters considered as a group)
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- what alphabet does russia use
- what alphabet has the most letters
- what alphabet does polish use
- what alphabet does japan use
- what alphabet does greek use
- what alphabet does german use
- what alphabet does turkish use
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