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Definition: A B C |
A B C1. The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. 2. A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. 3. The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet. |
Crosswords: A B C |
| Specialty definitions using "A B C": Holophernes. (references) |
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Song Titles | A B C (performing artist: The Jackson Five) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | |
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Expression using "A B C": A B C book. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "A B C"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | a b c. (various references) | |
Hungarian | alapfokú ismeretek (a.b.c., abc, alphabet), abc (a.b.c., abc, alphabet), közért (a.b.c., abc, alphabet), ábécé (a.b.c., ABC, alphabet, basics, criss-cross-row, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Italian | alfabeto (a.b.c., ABC, alphabet, basics, elements, fundamentals, illiterate, rudiments). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aay bay cay.(various references) | |
Spanish | alfabeto (a.b.c., abc, alphabet, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), abecedario (a.b.c., abc, abc book, abecedarian, hornbook), abecé (a.b.c., abc, alphabet, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), viejo (a.b.c., abc, aged, antique, dry, elder, elderly, governor, greybeard, guv, lost, mustiness, old, old man, old time, old timer, old-aged, olden, old-established, oldster, ole, stale, used), simple (a.b.c., abc, artless, bare, mere, plain, simple, simple minded, single, straightforward), principio (a.b.c., abc, beginning, birth, commencement, front, inception, initiation, opening, outset, principle, rule, setout, start, tenet), primitivo (a.b.c., abc, aboriginal, early, initial, original, primaeval, primal, primeval, primitive), escritura (a.b.c., abc, cuneiform, deed, document, hand, handwriting, indenture, instrument, script, scripture, writ, writing), bruto (a.b.c., abc, beast, brute, brutish, coarse, crude, currish, gross, raw, sod, stupid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bảng chữ cái khái niệm cơ sở. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cab. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c" | |
-1 letter: ab, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c" | |
+1 letter: bach, back, cabs, carb, crab, scab. | |
+2 letters: abaca, abaci, aback, acerb, bacca, backs, bacon, banco, baric, basic, batch, beach, becap, black, brace, brach, bract, cabal, cabby, caber, cabin, cable, cabob, carbo, carbs, carob, ceiba, cobia, cobra, crabs, rabic, scabs, scuba. | |
+3 letters: abacas, abacus, abbacy, abduce, abduct, abject, abulic, amebic, arabic, aucuba, baccae, bached, baches, backed, backer, backup, bacons, bacula, bancos, bardic, basics, beachy, beacon, becalm, became, becaps, bicarb, biface, bipack, blacks, blanch, bleach, bobcat, boccia, bonaci, boxcar, braced, bracer, braces, brachs, bracts, branch, breach, broach, buccal, buckra, cabala, cabals, cabana, cabbed, cabbie, cabers, cabins, cabled, cables, cablet, cabman, cabmen, cabobs, camber, cambia, carbon, carbos, carboy, caribe, carobs, casaba, casbah, ceibas, chabuk, cobalt, cobias, cobras, combat, confab, corban, crabby, crambe, crambo, cubage, cymbal, fabric, hubcap, iambic, mobcap, rubace, sacbut, scabby, scarab, scubas, tambac, tombac. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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