alphabet

n. series of letters used in a certain language

ABCs redirects here, for the Alien Big Cats, see British big cats. An alphabet is a standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a  phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logographs, in which each character represents a word, and syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable, but alphabets are the most widespread writing system.
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Noun
1. a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
(hypernym) character set
(hyponym) Armenian, Armenian alphabet
(member-meronym) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
(derivation) alphabetize
2. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
(synonym) rudiment, first rudiment, first principle, ABC, ABC's, ABCs
(hypernym) fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, basic principle, bedrock
(classification) plural, plural form

n. alphabet, series of letters used in a certain language

n. A B C, alphabet