Helen Fenton

Alpha: Definition and part of speech

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Alpha

  1. n. The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Alphabet: Definition and part of speech

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Alphabet

  1. v. t. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
  2. n. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
  3. n. The simplest rudiments; elements.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Alphabetical: Definition and part of speech

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Alphabetical

  1. a. Literal.
  2. a. Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.