ALPHABETICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alphabetical mean? 

• ALPHABETICAL (adjective)
  The adjective ALPHABETICAL has 2 senses:

1. relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet

2. arranged in order according to the alphabet

  Familiarity information: ALPHABETICAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALPHABETICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

alphabetic; alphabetical

Context example:

alphabetical writing system

Pertainym:

alphabet (a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language)

Derivation:

alphabet (a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arranged in order according to the alphabet

Synonyms:

alphabetic; alphabetical

Context example:

dictionaries list words in alphabetical order

Similar:

abecedarian (alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers))

alphabetised; alphabetized (having been put in alphabetical order)

Derivation:

alphabet (a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language)

 Context examples 

An alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field.

(Glossary, NCI Thesaurus)

After he had left me, I placed all my words, with their interpretations, in alphabetical order.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)