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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

  1. plural of number

Noun

numbers pl (plural only)

  1. 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

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of number

Anagrams

  • numbres, renumbs

numbers From the web:

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  • what numbers are composite
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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)

  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)

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