Abecedarian

Definitions: Abecedarian

Abecedarian

Adjective

1. Alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers).

Noun

1. A novice learning the rudiments of some subject.

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Abecedarian One who teaches or is learning his A B C. Abecedarian hymns. Hymns which began with the letter A, and each verse or clause following took up the letters of the alphabet in regular succession. (See Acrostic.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Abecedarian is a nickname given to certain extreme Anabaptists, who regarded the teaching of the Holy Spirit as all that was necessary, and so despised all human learning and even the power of reading the written word.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Learner	Noun: learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice, journeyman; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian; alumnus, eleve.
Letter	Adjective: literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular, minuscular; uncial; (writing).
Teacher	Professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher; chalk talker, khoja; pastor; (clergy); schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian; schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Abecedarian

English words defined with "abecedarian": Alphabetarian. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Abecedarian (reference) Abecedarian Book (reference) An Algebra Primer: Abecedarian Mathematics for College Students (reference) Structured Programming in PL/C: An Abecedarian (reference) The abecedarian book (reference) (more book examples)
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Expressions using "abecedarian": abecedarian alphabetical ♦ Abecedarian psalms. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "abecedarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		alfabeties (alphabetical), elementêr (elemental, elementary). (various references)

Albanian		në rendin alfabetik, i thjeshtë (artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), fillore (elemental, elementary, primary school). (various references)

Arabic		‏شذوذ (aberration, abnormality, anomaly, anomie, eccentricity, exception, kink, oddity, quirk, sports). (various references)

Bulgarian		основен (alkali, alkaline, basal, basic, bottom, capital, essential, fundamental, general, grade, gut, key, key note, main, organic, pivotal, polar, primal, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing, tonic, ultimate, underlying), начинаещ (beginner, intrant, novice, tyro), елементарен (elemental, elementary, potty, rudimental, rudimentary), азбучен (alphabetic, alphabetical), първолаче, подреден по азбучен ред. (various references)

Czech		abecední (alphabetic, alphabetical). (various references)

Danish		alfabetisk (alphabetic, alphabetical, lexical), elementær (elemental, elementary). (various references)

Dutch		alfabetisch (alphabetic, alphabetical, lexical), ABC-onderwýzer, ABC-leerling, elementair (elemental, elementary). (various references)

Faeroese		grund- (elemental, elementary). (various references)

French		alphabétique, primaire, débutant. (various references)

Frisian		alfabetysk (alphabetical), elemintêr (elemental, elementary). (various references)

German		alphabetisch (alphabetic, alphabetical, alphabetically), Abc-Schu.tze, elementar (basic, elemental, elementary, fundamental, primary, rudimental, rudimentary, ultimate, violent). (various references)

Hawaiian		fillore (elemental, elementary). (various references)

Hungarian		alfabetikus (alphabetical), alapvetõ (basal, basic, bedrock, elementary, essential, fundamental, ground, primal, quintessential, radical), betûrendes (alphabetic, alphabetical). (various references)

Icelandic		stafrófs- (alphabetical), í stafrófsröð (alphabetical). (various references)

Italian		alfabetico (alphabetic, alphabetical), abbecedario (ABC book, first reader), scolaretto che impara l'alfabeto, principiante (beginner, catechumen, incipient user, neophyte, novice, recruit, ships boy, tyro), novellino (beginner, fresh, freshly, green, greenhorn, inexperienced, recruit, young, youthfully), ignorante (addled, clodhopper, dunce, foolish, ignoramus, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate, impolite, nescient, rude, stupid, uneducated, unillumined, uninformed, unknowable), elementare (basic, elemental, elementary, fundamental, primary, rudimental). (various references)

Papiamen		alfabétiko (alphabetical), elemental (elemental, elementary). (various references)

Pig Latin		abecedarianay.(various references)

Portuguese		abecedário (a.b.c., abc, alphabet). (various references)

Romanian		alfabetic (alphabetic, alphabetical, alphabetically), persoanã care învaţã alfabetul, elementar (elemental, elementary, primary, rudimental, rudimentary), de abecedar, începãtor (a, apprentice, beginner, beginning, cadet, fledgeling, novice, raw hand, suckling, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro). (various references)

Russian		азбучный (alphabetic, alphabetical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		početnički (learner). (various references)

Spanish		antiguo (age-old, ancient, antique, archaic, former, late, long standing, old, old world, old-established, ole, out of date, quondam, used, vintage), alfabético (alphabetic, alphabetical), abecedario (a b c, a.b.c., abc, abc book, first reader, hornbook), abc (abc, ABC book, first reader), principiante (beginner, novice, tenderfoot, tyro), ignorante (benighted, brainless, dark, ignoramus, ignorant, incognizant, know-nothing, nescient, uninformed). (various references)

Swedish		alfabetisk (alphabetic, alphabetical). (various references)

Turkish		okumayı yeni öğrenen kimse. (various references)

Ukranian		розташований в алфавітному порядку, той, хто вивча�" грамоту, елементарний (basic, elementary, open and shut, rudimentary), азбучний (alphabetic, alphabetical). (various references)

Vietnamese		sắp xếp theo thứ tự abc sơ đẳng dốt nát. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "abecedarian": abecedarians. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-d-e-e-i-n-r"
	-3 letters: abidance, acaridan, arcadian, carabine, dracaena, radiance.
	-4 letters: acarine, aneared, arabica, araneid, arcadia, beadier, brained, cabined, cairned, carabid, carabin, carbide, carbine, cardiae, carinae, deciare, inbreed, recaned.
	-5 letters: abider, abrade, acarid, acedia, acinar, aedine, aeried, arabic, arcade, arcana, arcane, arnica, bander, bardic, beaned, beanie, bender, binder, braced, brined, cabana, canard, cardia, careen, caribe, caried, carina, carnie, cedarn, cinder, craned, crania, dancer, dearie, decane, decare, decern, deicer, denari, denier, earned, edenic, endear, inbred, indaba, nacred, neared, nereid, radian, rained, rancid, rebind, recane, rediae, reined, riband.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-c-d-e-e-i-n-r"
	+1 letter: abecedarians.
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