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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rudiment, first rudiment, first principle, alphabet, ABC, ABC's, ABCsnoun

    the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)

    "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"

Wiktionary

  1. ABCnoun

    The alphabet.

    Do you know your ABCs?

  2. ABCnoun

    A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.

  3. ABCnoun

    The rudiments of any subject.

    the ABC of finance

  4. ABCnoun

    A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.

  5. ABCnoun

    A British alphabetized guidebook for trains and their stations.

  6. Etymology: The first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet

ChatGPT

  1. abc

    "ABC" is a broad term that can have various meanings based on its context. The most common use is as an acronym for the English Alphabet's first three letters. In business, it often stands for "Activity-Based Costing," a accounting approach that assigns costs based on activities. In childcare or education, it could refer to learning the basics (as in 'learning your ABCs'). It's also the name of the American Broadcasting Company, a major U.S television network. Therefore, the generalized definition would largely depend on the particular context it is being used in.

Wikidata

  1. ABC

    ABC are an English New Romantic band that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. The band continues to tour and released a new album, Traffic, in 2008.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Abc

    Abcee, ā-bē-sē′, n. the alphabet from its first letters: a first reading-book (obs.), hence fig. the first rudiments of anything.—ABC book (Shak.), a book to teach the a, b, c, or alphabet.

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Anagrams for abc »

  1. bac

  2. BAC

  3. BCA

  4. B. C. A.

  5. cab

  6. CAB

  7. CBA

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of abc in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of abc in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of abc in a Sentence

  1. Hillary Clinton:

    ‘I think Bernie Sanders seemed to have a course correction in the [Jefferson Jackson] dinner from one in which he said he wasn’t going to go negative to – to obviously focusing his, you know, his fire on her,’ [John Podesta] said on ABC’s ‘This Week’ on Sunday. Podesta said Clinton, on the other hand, refrained from partisanship and focused on painting a positive vision for the future of America in her speech.

  2. Joy Behar:

    It’s not that I was an angel the entire time, of course, I was there for years. You’re not an angel every single day at work, especially in such a high-level, contentious environment. I'm sure when this book comes out, ABC will have many things to say about things that I did, but I never told a woman who had just gotten back from maternity leave, on air, that I didn't miss her and think that it was hilarious.

  3. Clay Newbill:

    I wouldn’t be surprised if something like that happens in the future because it is something that we internally at ‘Shark Tank,’ along with Sony and ABC, have discussed.

  4. An ABC source:

    ABC is doing absolutely nothing about this.

  5. Clay Newbill:

    Every producer is always a bit paranoid about that. i wouldn’t be surprised if something like that happens in the future because it is something that we internally at ‘Shark Tank,’ along with Sony and ABC, have discussed.

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