Meaning

The first letter of the English alphabet, written in the Latin script..

Definitions by Sense

1. The first letter of the English alphabet, written in the Latin script.
2. The first numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called ay and written in the Latin script.
3. The name of the Latin script letter A/a.
4. An unspecified example of (something); the indefinite article.
5. One; used before score, dozen, hundred, thousand, million, etc.
6. Used in some phrases denoting quantity, such as a few, a good many, a couple, a little, a bit, etc.
7. Used in some adverbial phrases denoting the degree or extent of an action, such as a little, a bit, a lot, etc.
8. The same; one and the same. Used in phrases such as of a kind, birds of a feather, etc.

Example Sentences

This expression is zero, for we have replaced the column of a''''s by the column of bs and hence the determinant has two columns identical.

Passmore. Capital P-a-double s-m-o-r-e.

Note that with 18-point type, fifteen capital A's, twenty-five lowercase a's, and twelve 1's are obtained with one font. With this information, it is possible to refer to Table 10-1 which gives the number of characters for each letter, punctuation mark, or figure.

Across every sheet of paper were lines and lines of letters of the alphabet. A row of a's followed by a row of b's and so on, pages of them, like pages from a copy book, crudely formed as if from the hand of a young child.

In the seventh grade I admired a charismatic, witty girl who had a particular way of writing her lowercase a's. After some practice, I took to writing my lowercase a's in the same fashion.

This piece somewhat resembles an a. On the left is a man seated on the ground, with a dog between his legs, and a large bird of prey in his hands, which appears to be biting his head.

But with some prelude of disparagement, / Read, mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, / Deep-chested music, and to this result.

Letters should be spelled as follows; aes, bees, cees, dees, ees, efs, gees, aitches, ies, jays, kays, els, ems, ens, oes, pees, ques, ars, esses, tees, ues, vees, ws or dubleyuz, exes, wyes, zees.

Word Forms

• A
• as
• a's
• aes
• 'a
• 'a'
• ha
• ha'
• o'
• o
• a'
• uh

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When Should You Use A?

Use a when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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