<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the letters of a language in their customary order.</li><li>any system of characters or signs with which a language is written.</li><li>any system of characters or signs used to represent the sounds of a language.</li><li>first elements; basic facts; simplest rudiments.</li><li>the alphabet, a system of writing, developed in the ancient Middle East and transmitted from the northwest Semites to the Greeks.</li></ul>