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Noun alphabet has 2 senses
  1. alphabet - a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
    --1 is a kind of     character set; script
    --1 has members: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
    --1 has particulars:
     Armenian, Armenian alphabet; Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet; Hebrew alphabet, Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script; Greek alphabet; Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic; Arabic alphabet; phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet; manual alphabet, finger alphabet
    Derived forms: verb alphabetize2, verb alphabetize1, verb alphabetise1
  2. rudiment, first rudiment, first principle, alphabet, ABC, ABC's, ABCs - the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
    --2 is a kind of fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, basic principle, bedrock
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