letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
- his grandmother taught him his letters
• Syn:
letter, alphabetic character
• Derivationally related forms:
letter (for: letter)
• Hypernyms:
character, grapheme, graphic symbol
• Hyponyms:
ascender, descender, digraph, digram, initial,
A, a, B, b, C, c,
D, d, E, e, F, f,
G, g, H, h, I, i,
J, j, K, k, L, l,
M, m, N, n, O, o,
P, p, Q, q, R, r,
S, s, T, t, U, u,
V, v, W, w, double-u, X,
x, ex, Y, y, wye, Z,
z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard, alpha,
beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta,
theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu,
xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau,
upsilon, phi, chi, khi, psi, omega,
aleph, beth, gimel, daleth, he, waw,
zayin, heth, teth, yodh, kaph, lamedh,
mem, nun, samekh, ayin, pe, sadhe,
qoph, resh, sin, shin, taw, polyphone,
polyphonic letter, block letter, block capital, vowel, consonant
• Member Holonyms:
alphabet
• Part Holonyms:
spelling
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