Meaning

Someone who is learning the alphabet..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who is learning the alphabet.
2. An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
3. (archaic) Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
4. (rhetoric) A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
5. (now rare) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
6. Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
7. Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
8. Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

Example Sentences

A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [translating abecedaire].

This formal organization is most likely to create obscurity in such elaborate and artificial forms as: palindromes (words, phrases, or verses which read the same backward or forward), abecedarians (poems in which the initial letters of lines or stanzas are arranged to[…])[…].

Abecedarian verses are chanted stichoi/stichera verses in which the first letter of each verse follows an alphabetical order.[…]The Amomos, an abecedarian, is the longest psalm in the Psalter[…].

An Abecedarian is any poem constrained by alphabetical order.

The professor [...] had several other translations or feats of antiquarian deciphering to his credit. Indeed, I was extremely fortunate to find him in at the museum, for he planned to fly within the week to Peru where yet another task awaited his abecedarian talents.

Word Forms

• abecedarians
• abecedary
• more abecedarian
• most abecedarian

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When Should You Use Abecedarian?

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

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