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 cutlas , or fhort fword ; Un cortellazzo ; Un cou- telas ; Una cimittarra . A cimiter ; Scimitarra alla Morefca , ftorta , fquar- cina ; Un cimeterre à la ...
... a large pond in the centre of Weld , discharges its water by Webb's River , running through a broad plain in Carthage , containing great quantities of pine ...
... a body with a given velocity moves . thro ' a certain space a foot , for inftance , in a fecond of time , it will in two feconds , with the fame ve- locity ...
... a City walled ' and standing in a pleasant and champaign Country , and containing in it many Churches , amongst which one is a Cathedral , two Friaries and ...
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 ...