CYRILLIC ALPHABET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cyrillic alphabet mean? 

• CYRILLIC ALPHABET (noun)
  The noun CYRILLIC ALPHABET has 1 sense:

1. an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)

  Familiarity information: CYRILLIC ALPHABET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYRILLIC ALPHABET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Cyrillic; Cyrillic alphabet

Hypernyms ("Cyrillic alphabet" is a kind of...):

alphabet (a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language)

bicameral script (a script having two distinct cases)