a
/ə,ā/
determiner
- used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation."a man came out of the room"
- used to indicate membership of a class of people or things."he is a lawyer"
- used when expressing rates or ratios; in, to, or for each; per."typing 60 words a minute"
The letter Å represents various sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume... Wikipedia
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
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... A Quintain , or riding at quintaine ; Ber Jaute , quintane ; Quintana , cavalca- ta ; Quintana , cavalcada . A Quintal , or hundred pound weight ; Quintal ...
... a knock at the small end ) and then draw them out , then take the hive and give it a knock on the floor , on the side towhich the broad sideofthe comb is ...
... a convention held at Worcester of slavery in the United States , written a generation ( June 14 , 1775 ) , it was resolved , " that we abhor the ago , reads ...
... a syllable boundary between the two /a/ vowels, giving boundaries /mi.la.a.la/ in the above example (see also page 69 above, and page 128 below). Under this ...
А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /ä/, halfway between the pronunciation of ...
a feminine singular ending of nouns borrowed from Latin and Greek, also used in New Latin coinages to Latinize bases of any origin, and as a Latin substitute ...