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ABECEDARY

Definition: ABECEDARY

ABECEDARY

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.

Noun

1. A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: ABECEDARY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Letter

Noun: letter; character; hieroglyphic; (writing); type; (printing); capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row.

School

School book, horn book, text book; grammar, primer, abecedary, rudiments, manual, vade mecum; encyclopedia, cyclopedia; Lindley Murray, dictionary, lexicon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: ABECEDARY

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Metaphorical God: An Abecedary of Images for God (reference)

  • Abecedary : verse (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ABECEDARY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abecedary

38
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ABECEDARY

Language Translations for "ABECEDARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

ספר א-ב (primer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abecedaryay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ABECEDARY

Misspellings

"ABECEDARY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abacada. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ABECEDARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-e-r-y"

-1 letter: bayadeer, bayadere.

-2 letters: beeyard, decayer.

-3 letters: abrade, arcade, bayard, braced, brayed, bready, decare, eyebar, redbay.

-4 letters: acerb, acred, arced, ardeb, areae, areca, baaed, barde, bared, barye, bayed, beady, beard, beery, brace, bread, brede, breed, caber, cadre, cared, cedar, ceder, cered, creed, cyder, deary, debar, debye, decay, decry, deray, derby, eared, raced, rayed, ready, rebec.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-e-r-y"
 

+2 letters: barefacedly.

 

+4 letters: decarboxylase, decarboxylate.

 

+5 letters: decarboxylases, decarboxylated, decarboxylates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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