Meaning

4 senses

  1. Someone who is learning the alphabet.

    a novice learning the rudiments of some subject

  2. An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.

  3. (rhetoric)A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.

  4. (archaic)Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.

Origin

From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius).

From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.

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Forms

plural: abecedarians

See also

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