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Abecedarian

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

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Alphabetic 84% connected

Alt. of Alphabetical

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Alphabetic 84% connected

Alt. of Alphabetical

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Alphabetical 84% connected

Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangem…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Alphabetical 84% connected

Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangem…

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Beginner 76% connected

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Novice 76% connected

One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

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Sect 76% connected

A cutting; a scion.

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Tiro 76% connected

Same as Tyro.

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Tyro 76% connected

A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.

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Buddhism noun · 84% connection

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one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

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followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices

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Hebraism noun · 84% connection

Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud

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Hindooism noun · 84% connection

the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal

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Hinduism noun · 84% connection

the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal

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Judaism noun · 84% connection

Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud

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Levirate noun · 84% connection

the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line

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the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan

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religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu

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Babism noun · 83% connection

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Brahmanism noun · 83% connection

the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism

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the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism

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A unknown · 78% connection

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: learning, alphabet, hence, tyro.
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A B C unknown · 78% connection

The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.

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Abecedary adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.

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Academy noun · 78% connection

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a ra…

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Acrostic noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

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Alectryomancy noun · 78% connection

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in…

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Alpha noun · 78% connection

The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.

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Alphabet verb · 78% connection

To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

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Alphabetarian noun · 78% connection

A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.

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Alphabetism noun · 78% connection

The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet.

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Alphabetize verb · 78% connection

To furnish with an alphabet.

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Apprentice noun · 78% connection

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

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Azymous adjective · 78% connection

Unleavened; unfermented. B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologi…

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