Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of a single letter: as, Y is the uniliteral name of some moths.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of one letter only.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of a single
letter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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House and most of the other letters were not uniliteral glyphs in Egyptian: the Semitic alphabet is not derived from the existing Egyptian alphabet, but rather from the full set of hieratic hieroglyphs.
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House and most of the other letters were not uniliteral glyphs in Egyptian: the Semitic alphabet is not derived from the existing Egyptian alphabet, but rather from the full set of hieratic hieroglyphs.
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And if you are going to devalue the meaning of words, Mr Buckroyd, what's wicked is the contribution people such as you make to the ongoing British uniliteral educational disarmament.
Wicked 2008
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Thus, like them, he distinguishes triliteral, biliteral, and even uniliteral roots; but contrary to them, he maintains that contracted and quiescent verbs are triliteral and not biliteral.
Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906
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The vulture hieroglyph was the uniliteral sign used for the glottal sound including words such as mother, prosperous, grandmother, and ruler.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008
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