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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to an alphabet in which the names of the letters are represented by a word beginning with that letter or with the sound that letter represents, as when bravo, charlie represent the letters b, c.
- adjective Relating to an alphabet in which the letters derive from pictographs that represent a word beginning with the sound that the letter represents, such as the early alphabet of Canaanites from which the Greek, Roman, and Hebrew alphabets descend.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
acrophonetic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Conforming to
acrophony .
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