Syllabary

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  • noun. A list of syllables.
  • noun. A set of written characters for a language, each character representing a syllable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A catalogue of the syllables of a language; a list or set of syllables, or of characters having a syllabic value.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables
  • noun. A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a writing system whose characters represent syllables
    • Word Usage
    "The point is, if you say a script is a "syllabary" that suggests one character per syllable, and if you look at kana, you don't get that."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    script  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Devanagari  Linear B  Nagari  devanagari script  nagari script  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Calvary  Welland  all-destroying  baggage-train  character-painting  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    IPA  ITA  Initial Teaching Alphabet  International Phonetic Alphabet  alphabet  
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