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syenitic |
syke |
syker |
syle |
syllabarium |
syllabary
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| syllabic
| syllabic script
| syllabical
| syllabically
syllabary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun syllabary has 1 sense
- syllabary(n = noun.communication) syllabic script - a writing system whose characters represent syllables; Array is a kind of script
has particulars: devanagari, devanagari script, nagari, nagari script, linear b
CIDE DICTIONARY
syllabary, n.
A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. S. W. Williams. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
syllabary, n. (pl. -ies) a list of characters representing syllables and (in some languages or stages of writing) serving the purpose of an alphabet.
Etymology
mod.L syllabarium (as SYLLABLE)
THESAURUS
syllabary
IPA, ITA, Initial Teaching Alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, alphabet, alphabetics, art, blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama, drawing, exemplification, figuration, futhark, graphemics, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, letter, letters, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, paleography, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, runic alphabet, schema, score, script, symbol, tablature, writing, writing system
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