GREEK ALPHABET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Greek alphabet mean? 

• GREEK ALPHABET (noun)
  The noun GREEK ALPHABET has 1 sense:

1. the alphabet used by ancient Greeks

  Familiarity information: GREEK ALPHABET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEK ALPHABET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The alphabet used by ancient Greeks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Greek alphabet" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Greek alphabet"):

mu (the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet)

omega (the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet)

psi (the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet)

chi; khi (the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet)

phi (the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet)

upsilon (the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet)

tau (the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet)

sigma (the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet)

rho (the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet)

pi (the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet)

omicron (the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet)

xi (the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet)

nu (the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet)

lambda (the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet)

kappa (the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet)

iota (the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet)

theta (the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet)

eta (the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet)

zeta (the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet)

epsilon (the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet)

delta (the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet)

gamma (the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet)

beta (the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet)

alpha (the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet)

 Context examples 

A change in or difference between; usually represented by the 4th letter of the greek alphabet.

(Delta, NCI Thesaurus)

The 1st letter of the Greek alphabet.

(Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)