Alphabets - English meaning

noun

The alphabet.

Usage examples:

Millions of children every year learn how to say their abc

abbreviation

American broadcasting company.

adjective

Relating to or denoting american-born people of chinese descent.

Usage examples:

Some abc parents send their children to chinese language schools

noun

A devotional painting of christ or another holy figure, typically executed on wood and used ceremonially in the byzantine and other eastern churches.

Usage examples:

The iconoclasts wanted to rid the church of images, icons, even paintings.

noun

A character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet.

Usage examples:

A capital letter

verb

Inscribe letters or writing on.

Usage examples:

Her name was lettered in gold

noun

The signs constituting the syllabic or alphabetic symbols of a language.

Usage examples:

For this the scribes devised a set of ideograms and phonetic symbols based on a signary of twenty-f…

noun

A set of written characters representing syllables and (in some languages or stages of writing) serving the purpose of an alphabet.

Usage examples:

The japanese phonetic syllabaries (characters representing syllables) or the roman alphabet is used…

noun

A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.

Usage examples:

The symbol r in figure 5 represents a gene which is ineffective

verb

Symbolize.

Usage examples:

The first was symbol of the atonement the 2nd was to symbol the carrying away of sins.

noun

Anything used to represent something else, such as a sign or mark, a person, or an event

Usage examples:

Five interlocking rings is the symbol of the olympic games., she’s a symbol of hope for people livi…