Definition of a A
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We found 34 definitions of a from 8 different sources.
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WordNet
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| a - the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet | ||
| a | ||
| alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor" | ||
| a - the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen | ||
| type A, group A | ||
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Wiktionary 
- a (Noun)
A spoken sound represented by the letter a or A, as in map, mall, or male. - a (Noun)
A written representation of the letter A or a. - a (Noun)
A printer's type or stamp used to reproduce the letter a. - a (Noun)
An item having the shape of the letter a or A.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
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The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the a sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. - a (Mus.)
The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G. - a (emph.)
An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically. - a
In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc. - a (prep.)
In; on; at; by. - a (prep.)
In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. - a
Of. - a
A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. - a
An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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One; any indefinite example of [indefinite article]. -
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One certain or particular. -
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To; each; per. -
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Singular feminine of the indefinite article -
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The masculine singular indefinite article. -
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A certain; a particular. -
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Some; about -
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A work by. -
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[The indefinite article, used in a negative construction.] -
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A musical note between G and B.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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a
the indefinite article, a broken-down form of An, and used before words beginning with the sound of a consonant. [An was a new development, after the Conquest, of the A.S. numeral án, one.] -
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ä or ā, a prep., derived from the old prep. on, and still used, as a prefix, in afoot, afield, apart, asleep, nowadays, twice-a-day; also with verbal nouns, as a-building, to be a-doing, to set a-going. It is now admitted only colloquially. [Short for A.S. an, a dialectic form of on, on, in, at. See Prefixes.] -
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ä, a dialectic corruption of he or she, as in quotha, (Shak.) 'A babbled of green fields.'—A, usually written a', Scotch for all; A, a form of the L. prep. ab, from, of, used before consonants, as in Thomas à Kempis, Thomas à Becket, &c
Electrical DictionaryThe Standard Electrical Dictionary 💡
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a
Abbreviation for anode, employed in text relating to electro-therapeutics. It is sometimes written An.
Wikipedia 
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A is 1st letter of the alphabet. A is a usual symbol for a low central vowel, as in father; the English long a (ā) is pronounced as a diphthong of ĕ and y. The corresponding letter of the Greek alphabet is named alpha. Alpha and omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, symbolize the beginning and the end, and in the New Testament, Christ. In musical notation the letter is the symbol of a note in the scale, below B and above G.
words that start with Aa.
2. The highest mark, as in school.
4. An example or kind of, In or to each; per
3. This is a person you can trust.
We paid five dollars a person for the tickets. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. -
Ä or ä is not a letter used in English, but is used in some other languages.
Germany and Austria.
Ä or ä is one of the 4 extra letters used in German. It can be replaced by using the letters Ae or ae. In English language newspapers it is often written as A or a but this is not correct.
Internet addresses are written as "ae" because the internet address system can only understand ordinary English letters.
Switzerland.
German is one of the official languages of Switzerland, but people from Switzerland who speak German do not use the extra letter, they always use ae. -
Cyrillic
A (A, a) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.
It came from the Greek alpha. A long time ago, it was called "azǔ" and stood for the number 1 (number). It looks exactly the same and is the same as the Roman A.
All languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet say it as [a]. -
disambiguation
A is the first letter of the alphabet.
In English, it is one of the two indefinite articles, the other being an.
Part of speech
🔤- a, noun, singular of as.
Pronunciation
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