English Dictionary

alphabet

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈæl.fə.bɛt/

名詞

香港英語 インド マレーシア英語 シンガポール英語 インターネット 俗語

The set of letters used when writing in a language.

日本語の意味

言語で文章を書く際に用いる文字の集合。

Children learn the alphabet by singing songs and practicing letter shapes.

子どもたちは歌を歌い、文字の形を練習することでアルファベットを学びます。

意味（1）

The set of letters used when writing in a language.

The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.

意味（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.)

意味（3）

A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)

意味（4）

(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

Let L be a regular language over the alphabet 𝛴.

意味（5）

(India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.

We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.

意味（6）

The simplest rudiments; elements.

The very alphabet of our law.

意味（7）

(Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.

alphabets （ plural ）