abecedarians
abecedarians is the plural of abecedarian.
Meaning of abecedarian
Noun
abecedarian (plural abecedarians)
- Someone who is learning the alphabet.
- An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
- A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [translating abecedaire].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 404
- Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
- A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
- 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[…])[…].1996, Mediaevalia, volume 19, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State University of New York at Binghamton, page 133
Noun capitalized: Abecedarians
Abecedarians
- plural of Abecedarian
Questions about abecedarians
- What is abecedarians the plural of?
- Abecedarians is the plural of abecedarian.
- What part of speech is abecedarians?
- Abecedarians is a noun.
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