Abecedarian

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  • noun. One who teaches or studies the alphabet.
  • noun. A beginner; a novice.
  • adjective. Having to do with the alphabet.
  • adjective. Being arranged alphabetically.
  • adjective. Elementary or rudimentary.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or formed by the letters of the alphabet.
  • Pertaining to the learning of the alphabet, or to one engaged in learning it; hence, relating to the first steps in learning.
  • Another form is abecedary.
  • noun. One who teaches or learns the letters of the alphabet.
  • noun. [capitalized] A follower of Nicolas Storch, an Anabaptist of Germany, in the sixteenth century.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
  • noun. One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
  • adjective. Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.
  • adjective. etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet.
  • adjective. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
  • adjective. Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
  • noun. a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
  • adjective. alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
  • Word Usage
    "In a wider sense the name acrostic is applied to alphabetical or "abecedarian" poems."
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